On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm embarrassed to say that I have YET to even try out my O-GPS1, > which I purchased mainly for the AstroTracer functionality. Life has > been a little disrupted, but is getting back to "nominal" (as NASA > likes to say during their spacecraft launches). > > I now have an even greater incentive to get ON IT. Terry Lovejoy > recently discovered a new comet (C/2013 R1) and on Dec. 25th it is > expected to be possible to photograph BOTH IT & Comet ISON in the same > field with a short telephoto lens. > > Wowsers. Two comets in the same image? That has to be a near > once-in-a-lifetime event. I need to get busy.
That'll be pretty awesome! Do me a favor and post about this again before that date so I remember to try this, too. :D I've used my O-GPS1, but I find it really unreliable in terms of it finding a GPS signal in a reasonable amount of time. When I took it around southeastern Australia in 2012, I'd have to wait five or more minutes for it to get things figured out, and it's only slightly faster here in California. Although I still carry it in my kit, I rarely use it these days. The one time I tried the AstroTracer feature, the results were pretty bad. Overall I'm not super impressed with it. Darren, if you have better luck with yours, please let me know. Maybe mine's defective. John -- 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.
