Well, we got clouded out again. I blame it on Bob J for picking up his
new CPT from Mark there.
However, it was middlin OK till about 10:30 when the sucker holes became
microscopic.
I was checking out the primary remount of my 8inch SN and recollimation.
It split the double double at 90x which I couldnt do at SSP. Turns out
that the primary had been mucked with by the original owner and it was
pretty far off center. I followed Paul Lefevres instructions (kinda).
And this is with the "mucky" seeing (per Bob J's report).
I was again playing with the Mintron EX vidcam. Got some acceptable tape
of M5 M10 M12 and maybe M51. I taped M51 when it was a little early and
could make out the arms but not the bridge. Stacking the frames may help
that but all this stuff is languishing for lack of a way to digitize
without so much manual input.
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Phil Chambers [ptchamb@No-Spam] (S.F. Bay Area - Calif. USA)