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looking up the historical moon data, that’s 72 hours after the new moon.

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One thing that bears mentioning is how amazingly hard it is to color-correct a fast system. Even high-end glass suffers from a lot of CA when wide-open. You can drop $5k on a fast lens and it will still get smacked around like an unruly stepchild by a well-engineered APO triplet at f6 on the CA/sharpness front.

I haven’t had the chance to test any older glass in this regard, but I’d love to do a comparison someday.

I really haven’t found that to be true. I’ve got a Sigma 20mm f/1.8 and have had two copies of the Canon 85mm f/1.8 and also the Canon 100mm f/2.8 Macro.

One of the 85mm lenses would give me some CA, but the other, not at all. None of the other lenses has given me any.

The zooms that I have, I have seen it pop up from time to time. But there’s a big difference between some of the $400-600 zooms and the $200 range.

If you’re getting sharper photos manually focusing than auto-focusing, it could be a matter of the lens not being calibrated precisely enough and is back or front focusing. There are tests you can do for that with a ruler. People on Photo.net seem to be crazy for that kind of testing.

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Around here all the bored housewives get a DSLR, a few bridal magazines and call themselves wedding photographers.

around here, too. and never take the camera off the green square setting.

Orionid, how many 620 spools would you want? I’ve got a bunch of old 620 cameras that are never going to see film go through them again, and I’m willing to bet there are spools in most of them.

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very nice. this is the thinnest moon I’ve ever gotten a good photo of:

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I think that is a really cool idea, but the last time I tried the plugin, it bugged the crap out of me. I don’t remember the specifics, and they may have improved it, but it slowed firefox down and was just generally a nuisance.

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oh, email is arbitrary.squid at gmail

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I’d be happy to help anybody that is having trouble getting files to a small enough size to work on fark. Also, for any farktographers that want webspace for contests, drop me a line and I’ll be happy to help. I’ve thought about making a gallery like the one at sacredartichoke.com for farktographers to use, as the gallery that I use, Coppermine, automatically makes a smaller size when you upload any large one, and that smaller size is always perfect for fark. With a little prodding, I could probably be persuaded.

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this may not be exactly where I’m talking about out north, but I think it is. I remember it right down to the gates. If it’s not, it’s somewhere in the general area, and can be found just by looking for the highest spot with a road going up it.

6916 N Cincinnati Ave E

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Thanks much for the write-up and software pointers, chupathingie. I’ll give your link a read and check out the software you recommended.

When you say “mount”, are you referring to a star-tracking mount (i.e., one that will automatically move to keep the celestial objects in the same position versus time)? Sorry if that’s a stupid question, but I’m more or less a complete noob when it comes to astrophotography.

Hey, just out of curiosity, where are you going out of town to view stars? I grew up in Tulsa from 1968-97, with the exception of a few years down in Norman at school. One of my favorite places to go at night was the overlook at Turkey Mountain above the river at 71st street, though you had to dodge the police helicopters and the county sheriffs out looking for criminals. That’s also one hell of a place to watch a summer sunrise or a full moon rising. They hang just huge on the horizon to the east with all that flat land compressed in front of it.

There’s also a really cool raised area north of town that I don’t know the exact spot of, but you can find it if you take one of the main streets near downtown just straight north until you get into the countryside. There’s a big dome-kind of hill that’s paved to the top, and at night, you have a panoramic view, more or less, 360? of the countryside around you. I’ve watched some spectacular thunderstorms roll in from there, and it’s amazing watching the clouds overhead send out lightning arcing out down below you.

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Murrican Squirrel would be my choice for some things, not so much for others.

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of the first group, I think the first three, the tree, the measuring tape, and the dog are the strongest. It would depend which direction you were going to be using them to whittle it down from there.

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Do you have any shots a little wider that show the architecture of the place at all? It sounds really cool. Love the candid shots you got.

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ha.

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I went out around midnight last night with my son, and we saw close to a dozen meteors, but nothing really outstanding or bright. It was more a lot of little quick flashes than any kind of long streaks.

No photos, as I managed to kill my 20D on my last trip before getting any photos of Kodiak Island, and I don’t think I’m going to get it repaired until after I save up for a new body of some sort.

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oh, also, try keh.com I know [http://bhphoto.com]B&H[/url] will take paypal and ship USPS. I don’t know if they ship to Canada, but I can’t imagine they don’t.

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