Hey, I love your shot of the moon occulting Orion! -- jb --- On Wed, 2/25/09, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Hard lessons in amateur astronomy To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 12:54 AM On 25 Feb 2009, at 00:11, Joe Bauman wrote:
Need to feel better about your astro-mistakes? Read my blog:
http://deseretnews.com/blogs/monthly/1,5553,10000034,00.html?bD=20090224&sc=... Ouch! That was almost painful to read. :)
And I would very much like any comments that might shed light on other errors, so that folks might avoid them -- or at least get a chuckle out of them.
Ok, here are a couple from the days of film photography (taken at Little Stonehenge): Forgot to advance the film between exposures. http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/0893.jpg Forgot to close the shutter before using a red light to check the scope's corrector plate for dew. http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/0903.jpg patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://gallery.utahastronomy.com Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com