Summer
2007 - Final Configuration and Optics Fine Tuning
Scratch Built 40.5 inch F4.2 - $5K total cost (materials)
Picture at upper right on main site
Table Mountain Star Party 2008
True First Light Late July 2008
Ellensburg WA
Scary transport, great thanks to Carl Freidman
First-Light (with decent skies)
40 mph windstorm /1 inch of rain night
1 Brilliant night and a massive fireball with report
1 Dewy Night and a repeat fireball (!)
1 Fair Night
Party favorite till 2am - there is a science to integrated object and crowd management - non stop hopping with a line of 15 people
41mm panoptic with parcorr about 120x
immage good to 200x, then stars turn to mush
2am-4am hard core starhopping
M13, M30 totally blew away the hard core
pretty excellent inagural flight
wait till I slap on a 10" F5 finder next year
1 comment:
Chris you are truly a space traveler. I hope you are enjoying the ride.
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