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I had an excruciating time with the B/W one last time (Elsinore and U-Man may still have the schitzo emails I sent to prove it). I just might sit this one out, as what looks grey on my monitor doesn’t seem so on others. Or I’m just color insensitive. I dunno.

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Cassegrains: These are the typical Celestron telescopes. Folded optics, usually f10 or more. Won’t need any collimation unless it’s manhandled. Makes for a short tube that is relatively easy to transport. If it’s 10″ or more, you can add a Hyperstar unit in place of the secondary mirror and mount a DSLR to it. This effectively turns the scope into a Schmidt camera, at around f2. Wicked fast.

This is on my wishlist to do. After I get the wedge mount, maybe in March when I get a stock payout.

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Hold the mustard; yellow isn’t my color.

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Kes, I understand the concept well enough, but since I host my own images, and have never used flickr (and I recall all the chatter about problems with posting them in the past year and the ‘you have to do this now’ dialog, the details of which are lost to me as I didn’t have the issue myself), I would probably screw it up. If I could screw it up, in fact, I’m sure I would screw it up.

I’d be glad to OBO from my own hosting acct, though, FFR.

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caradoc I was wondering where your entries were. Did you try clearing the browser cookies? I’ve never OBO’d and would probably screw it up, so go for it, Kes

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Elsinore, I’m feeling fickle tonight. Will you please delete my 2011-01-05 08:34:41 PM lightning ‘Arcs’ post? I added the seagull in a circle pic.

Good call, U-Man, IMHO.

And Mopsy, you have my prayers and ju-ju vibes for the Mr. Mopsy’s surgery.

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I’d gladly play the meat in a kestrana/Orionid sandwich. 😆

Kaiser that’s how I roll. 😉

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^that’s what she sa…^

//oh wait. That is what she said.

Carry on.

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Yes dear. Figuring out what to put when out of the myriad choices available on top of reorganizing the Hopper, it was the single thing I missed. Mea culpa.

I’d rather have you human and err than Cro-Mag and perfect. Thanks for the fix!

//that’s what my cat said, too. 😉

…seems such a short time ago when I’d suggested 50 ideas and all were shot down. I’m up to what, 6 or seven counting the hoppered ones? **feeling the love**

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…thanks to ravnostic for theme suggestion!

//just sayin. 🙂

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Been waiting for this. God pukes rainbows. 😀

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…a red scarf on an aged wooden floor. That sort of thing.

Please do clarify; not sure if an aged wooden floor wouldn’t be kinda brown for a shot? But IIRC, this was more a ‘b/w except for that one thing’ kind of theme when suggested.

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U-Man, why oh why didn’t you use the gecko shot? That is SO excellent!! Love the bird at sunset with the halo, as well.

Mopsy, Your ‘Arcs of Color’ is really nice.

Powerful Katrina 57 years? Did you marry at age 2? It’s lovely.

Queen Bee That eye shot is way-cool.

So many good pictures, I can’t wait to see what the Total-less farktographers come up with…

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Also: lots more variety than I was honestly expecting so far. Kudos all.

Agreed! Looks to be a good contest. I love your shot of Kestrana, seriously, I hope you take my comment as I meant it, in jest (not that the ring isn’t nice, it is, and that’s why I commented such.)

A couple b’s of the bigguns’ shots (I killed 10 lighters in the process of getting these images, may they rest in pieces)

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2011/jan/05/b1.jpg
http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2011/jan/05/b2.jpg
http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2011/jan/05/b3.jpg

And from the shot I used, the remains of the flint (or, technically, Ferrocerium) once it’d cooled down:

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2011/jan/05/colors.jpg

Were “Color Popping, Naturally” a slightly different them, I’d use that shot (or one on a better background) in that contest.

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Granted, I’m well aware there are lives outside of Farktography and those take precedence.

Bite your tongue, you heathen! 😯

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