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Originally Posted by SimmoW
Damn Mike, you need to get one of those new fangled CMOS cameras, could have gotten say a hundred subs of 10 secs? 
Bloody Mother Nature is teasing us a lot lately.
Methinks a crowd-funded amateur space based telescope is in order- I hear 'launch' costs for a SpaceX rocket are going dirt cheap, hahaha... |
It was good conditions to about 2:30am so I can't reeeally complain I guess, plus I finished my target exposure - 18hrs, longest yet with my AG12 and collected in three nights
Yes watching the latest Space X launch made me think IMAGINE if that had happened on an Apollo launch pad, how that iconic footage of a slow thunderous Saturn V rising from the pad, complete with disengaging hoses and ice falling off... would have been different
Werner's brilliance and NASA's almost 5% of federal budget funding pit probably helped
Mike
oh well, was pretty cool while it lasted 
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descended in no time, the headlamp always reveals it well. The awesome dark sky before hand for the 30min of friendship, was a bit freaky though, perhaps a bit like the darkness that descends during a total solar eclipse? 
