Re: Rashad Al-Mansour as astro hero

From: Peter Natscher (natscher@No-Spam)
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 10:26:24 MST

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    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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