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Originally Posted by gary
Hi Mike,
A customer was a surgeon in a battalion aid station with the U.S. Army
101st Airborne Division at Bagram air force base in Afghanistan.
The U.S. Army was kind enough to ship his Argo Navis equipped 10"
Dob over and he and a couple of colleagues would observe from an
abandoned Russian howitzer emplacement in the airfield.
Given that there was a war going on, it would have been easy to mistake
them for enemy combatants with a mortar or rocker launcher.
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Wow yeah crazy stuff too Gary, probably very lucky they didn't see a human delivered supernova
Luckily they were only visitors of course and could go home to the more traditional stress free environment, we all enjoy, to use their Argo, the poor astronomy enthusiasts of Afghanistan will have to deal with all the hurdles detailed in the piece for some time yet I'd imagine?
Mike