Hello, all -- I heard something on NPR yesterday about a new company called "Lytro" that is making a "take picture first, focus later" camera that captures "light fields". Their web site is www.lytro.com. There's not a lot of detail there, but I'm wondering if anyone knows what "light field photography" would do for astrophotos. This is from an absolute non-astrophotographer. I'm just curious if this will affect the field. In other news, in my continuing efforts to discern Utah's best state parks for observing, I'd scratch Wasatch Mountain State Park off. I was there the other day. I got a few new objects (in my new project of picking objects from Tirion's star atlas and trying to find them without finder charts), but the Milky Way, for example, was very faint. They try to make the campsites fairly private, so I had to set up sort of in the road after dark. A lot of horizon is obscured. Anyway, it was the clouds more than the location that shut me down. ---- Rev. Michael A. van Opstall Department of Mathematics, University of Utah Office: JWB 313 opstall@math.utah.edu