Yeah...that was using a 28-105mm variable lense @ ~50mm on a QSI 583ws. Stu

Mark....Here's almost the same shot that I took on 3/2&3/2022 from the backyard in Chesapeake. What a coincidence! Stu

Gee...thanks for the plug Ian. About a year ago I started shooting longer in an effort to get better pixs of dimmer objects. Some don't even show up in 10 or 15 minutes single frames. Thanks guys! Stu

FYI Stu ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Staunton River Star Party <stauntonriverstarparty@...> Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 9:03 AM Subject: Spring Staunton River Star Party 2022 To: G

Understand the hands thing...none of us "advanced age people" are as agile as we once were! That's why I use an electric stepper motor on all my focusers... Stu

It's because the critical focus zone (CFZ) is greater with slower telescopes. The CFZ is the distance one can move the focal point without any apparent change in focus, According to Ron Woraski's book

GOOD ...As far as I knew, this came up outta the blue from nowhere...Hope it works out. I want to get in as much dark sky as possible...My time is getting short. Stu

George...what leads you to say this might be a new location for a star party? Is this an idea from the campgrounds or the BBAA? OR a few individuals? I do agree we need one! I've been trying to plant

Make that... weather was "not good" vice "good" Stu

George...or anyone who went to the subject SP, how was it? I was loaded and planned to go a year or 2 ago and the night before, a tornado went thru that area and took out all power to the state park T

George...if that interests you, you ought to check out Staunton River Star Party next March & October...it's a little closer too... Stu

Yeah...Tks. just lucky my 12 foot cables were long enough to reach all the way across the engine to my left side battery...plus the fact that I had several batteries with me... Stu

Well, I did decide to go at the last minute...contrary to what I had said. However, due to the confusion caused to selling my field rig a couple weeks ago, I forgot to take the counterweights for the

yeah...I really miss those days Stu

Well, looks like I'm not going! Weather forecasts at 3 different places are calling for solid clouds, rain everyday with thunderstorms and generally bad weather all week. Even if they're wrong about t

Yeah Bob...as Ian said, weather don't look too good. But barring a hurricane, after 2 years absence, I'll be there. Stu

In getting ready for SRSP next week it dawned on me that my main computer that I intended to use at the SP was getting slower & slower over the last couple months. Last week it got so bad that if I to

No ...I have nothing against snakes personally...they are kinda cool, however when they invade my space, one of us has to go... BTW...thanks Kayce for the great reference. I'll save that. Stu

Ted...after reading a bit about it, I believe you are correct...good job! Stu

No longer...don't like snakes. I average 4 or 5 a year here