Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/12

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Subject: Re: Back to taking pictures....
From: "Richard W. Hemingway" <n5xrd@telepath.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 14:18:31 -0500

At 10:46 1997-04-11 -0700, you wrote:
>At 10:02 PM 10/04/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
[snip]

David,

>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   

It has finally stopped raining here, now we have a killer freeze!!

>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. 

[snip]

When I used to live in Michigan and Canada I used to see them, but they were
never real bright.  I imagine your pics are great.


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

Better contrast??

Dick Hemingway
Norman, OK