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stevecoe

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Loc: Arizona, USA

Re: Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures
07/29/08 07:00 PM

Rod;

I decided on the DSLR path and have enjoyed some piggybacking with a Hutech mod Canon Xt, plenty of camera for me. Arizona is covered in folks with much better astrophotography skills than me. Also, I find myself under beautiful clear skies just looking at a guide star and thinking "why aren't I observing?". So, I go out three or four times a year and take some shots and enjoy them, that is enough for me. I have the astro camera and a set of lenses from 28mm to 300mm and they allow to take some fun shots and "get it out of my system" so I can return to putting my eye to the eyepiece.

If another fabulous comet comes by--Maybe Comet Coe-Mollise?--I will get out and take lots more pictures. Until that time my "once a quarter" astrophotography trip is good enough.

The fabulous news about digital astrophotography is that the teenager at the developing machine does not get a shot at ruining your entire weekend of photos. "Hey dude, I scraped off them little dots for you".

It's all good;
Steve Coe

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150mm 6" f/8 Celestron Refractor on Sirius Mount
80mmED 3" f/7.5 Orion Refractor
Author "Deep Sky Observing" Springer-Verlag
Author "Nebulae and How to Observe Them" Springer
New Canon Xt astrocamera with Hutech modification

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Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures	Mike Loffland	07/29/08 12:06 PM
Re: Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures	Grouptele	08/06/08 07:15 AM
Re: Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures	danielsa42	07/31/08 01:17 PM
Re: Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures	cnstarz	07/31/08 02:45 PM
Re: Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures	Patrick	07/30/08 10:28 AM
Re: Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures	jgraham	07/30/08 11:51 AM
Re: Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures	danm	07/30/08 12:34 PM
Re: Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures	rmollise	07/30/08 05:09 PM
Re: Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures	MtnGoat	07/30/08 06:41 PM
Re: Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures	danm	07/30/08 10:53 PM
Re: Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures	Mark Talon	07/31/08 06:52 AM
Re: Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures	Paul Romero	08/04/08 01:05 AM
Re: Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures	Mark Talon	08/04/08 03:35 AM
Re: Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures	rmollise	07/31/08 10:51 AM
Re: Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures	Ptarmigan	07/29/08 09:28 PM
Re: Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures	LateViewer	07/30/08 01:28 AM
Re: Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures	rmollise	07/30/08 07:50 AM
Re: Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures	Simon Chung	07/29/08 02:59 PM
Re: Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures	Paul Romero	07/29/08 04:02 PM
Re: Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures	stevecoe	07/29/08 07:00 PM
Re: Uncle Rod, I Want to Take Pictures	rmollise	07/29/08 08:02 PM

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