Chuck

I thought several times while I was out there that it would have been nice to have the parallelograms there.

I saw Vega north and behind Hercules so I tried to find the ring nubula (M57). This was my first shot at it, but the moon was so bright I couldn't see the parallelogram  below Vega.  Even looking thru the Binos I couldn't tell which ones might be Sulafat or Sheliak or a fuzzy thing in the area.  I will have to give it another shot.

I can't tell you how much fun was. To tell it, it seems like nothing but it was a blast.

Jim

Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi Jim:

I actually worked on your parallelogram this weekend,
get ready....

When I get into "work mode" and don't come up for air
for weeks at a time, I sometimes have to let the sky
go, myself. Ah, the inconveniences of having to earn
a living...

I picked-up a fisheye lens for my trusty old Pentax-K
last fall, shot some tests in the backyard. I can
tell you that the moon will light things up like
daylight with only very short exposures. Every frame
had a blue sky, looked like daytime with only a
quarter-moon.

You gotta love those 15x70's. At the Bino-star-party
last June, Bruce Grim and I were knocking-down the
Messier objects as fast as we aimed the binoculars.

Saturday night, when I had Saturn in the eyepiece, I
tried to get my wife and daughter out to see it, to no
avail. I was a bit stunned...one of the "wonders" of
the universe, you can see it from your own back-yard,
and they wouldn't budge from their comfortable, warm
house!

Chuck

--- Jim Gibson wrote:
>
> Chuck
> This is Jim Gibson your friendly
> need-a-parallelogram guy. Nature woke me up at 3 AM
> and before sitting on the thrown I opened the
> bathroom window to check the sky. What I saw was a
> typical Utah hi-pressure cloudless sky.


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