I used my Sunspotter today and saw no spots. I have not seen any sun spots since 7/31/08. Sincerely, Gary Vardon The book DO It Right will help you understand vital ideas leading to your geater success. GO to PublishAmerica. -----Original Message----- From: Joe Bauman Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 10:53 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Joe's UFO Hi Steve, We can figure the direction by looking at the star I indicated as it was at about 3 a.m. Here's what I wrote in my journal about the lens: " The telephoto I borrowed from the paper was far too heavy for the telescope and I couldn't use it. Instead I used a small tele I have, which has f-stop openings to f/2." I still have the telephoto. It's a Nikon lens. Around the front it says, "Nikkor 28 mm 1:2 339925." I'm sure it was focused at infinity. -- hope that helps. Thanks for your interest! -- Joe --- On Fri, 4/17/09, Stephen Peterson <summitek@mindspring.com> wrote: From: Stephen Peterson <summitek@mindspring.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Joe's UFO To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 8:14 AM Joe, Image might be fun to analyze by doing some calculations. Do you recall lens focal length and aperture? You were probably focused at infinity. Aperture used for image (full open or 1 stop down)? I presume the "overall view" is a more or less full frame print from 35 mm format, any cropping when you did the digital copy? You say the camera was probably pointing SSE toward Moab. Any other info would be helpful. Steve _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com