Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/11

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Subject: Back to taking pictures....
From: David Young <youngs@IslandNet.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 10:46:56 -0700 (PDT)

At 10:02 PM 10/04/97 -0500, you wrote:

>Now I can take some more pics of the comet, if it ever stops raining here.
>
>Dick Hemingway


It's stopped raining here, and the sky was crisp and clear last night. The
comet looked great!  Took photos with a 1000mm Celestron f11 'scope and 90mm
Sumicron-R, using Kodacolor 1000 ASA   

The energy from the huge solar flare, that's recently been in the news, hit
the earth last night.  For about 40 minutes the Northern Lights were as
bright as most displays I used to see in the YUKON. 

Here, on the US border, we seldom see them at all, and they're very dim when
they do appear. Took photos of the aurora too - but haven't seen any results
yet.  I can hope!

Question:  Does the superiority of Leitz/Leica lenses matter when the
comet's so fuzzy anyway?

Cheers!




David Young          |  Many hands make light work.
Victoria, CANADA     |  Too many cooks spoil the broth.
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