On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, W. J. Liles wrote:
:
:The November issue of Sky and Telescope is in magazine racks now. It
:has an excellent article on the Leonids. The picture on page 30 shows
:just how much can be captured just with a 50mm lense on an equatorial
:mount tracking the stars for 10 minutes. Be careful you might get
:hooked by another hobby! By the way the OM1 with its mirror lock up and
:lack of batteries to fail is a favorite of amature astronomers.
Hmm, no mount for tracking stars here, just ye plain OM1n and tripod and
rubberband to hold shutter on B <G> The camcorder has some mode for
shooting under starry skies or the moon or something...wonder what it is
(no no, not NightShot). Never tried it, just read it in the manual
(CCD-TR(V?)43)
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