On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 24, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > >> >> Mon Oct 24 19:36:45 EDT 2011 >> Larry Colen wrote: >>> On 10/24/2011 4:14 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: >> >>>> Needs a lot of spotting >>> >>> An astronomical amount, enough to leave me seeing stars. >>> >>> Do you know the difference between photographing stars and photographing >>> galaxies? Galaxies are messier. >> >> One has to be not just a nerd, but an astronomical one to understand >> that pun.
But not so much of a nerd as one that knows that the French pronunciation of "Messier" is not really very close to the english word "messier". Also, as the owner of an 8" Dobsonian I can tell you that it isn't the size of your objective, it's how you use it. Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska Who photographed a bit of Northern Lights from Nebraska last night. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
