Last September at Coyote Lake, I thought I had everything packed as ususal,
but totally forgot my case with "all" of my eyepieces. We were having a
public night there. As it turned out, we got clouded in by sunset and it
didn't matter.
Peter Natscher
Monterey
> From: Jamie Dillon <jamie_dillon@No-Spam>
> Reply-To: The Astronomy Connection <sf-bay-tac@No-Spam>
> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:15:29 -0800
> To: sf-bay-tac@No-Spam
> Subject: [TAC] Rashad Al-Mansour as astro hero
>
> Canis Australis mentioned:
>> I'll always remember the late afternoon I showed up at The Peak,
>> talked to the folks and asked where Rashad was..."he had to go back
>> home (San Francisco) 'cause he forgot his truss tubes." ;-) Clear
>> skies! Paul
>
> And please let in stay in the books for new folks that Rashad picked
> up his tubes and headed back down to the Peak for a contented night
> of observing (if laced with profanity). Close to a 400 mile roundtrip
> when you double the path like that.
>
> The evening I was headed out without the mount for the Dobs, at least
> I'd left the back hatch on the van wide open so Jo hollered at me as
> I was merrily moving down the street.
>
>
> Clear skies y'all!
> the not yet senescent DDK
>
>
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