Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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