I have several shirts that are chemically treated to help repel insects - they've worked for me. I believe they are Ex-Officio brand, supposedly said to retain their repelling ability for many washings.
You really don't want Deet anywhere near your camera/lens - it will really mess up the labeling and plastic parts. -----Original Message----- >From: "P.J. Alling" <[email protected] >Subject: Re: GESOs, perseids at Thunderhill > >Modern science has a solution for that it's called DEET. > >On 8/16/2016 8:21 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> >> >> Marco Alpert wrote: >>> That’s really nice. >> >> Thanks >> >> It was a fun night. The next day when the mosquito bites started >> itching was a lot less fun. >> >>> >>> m >>> >>>> On Aug 16, 2016, at 3:53 PM, Larry Colen<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I haven't done my final selection of the best few, and won't have >>>> the time for a while, but here are my photos from last week. >>>> >>>> For people who don't want to wade through galleries, here is one >>>> with the track, the milkyway and a meteor: >>>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/29032885805/ >>>> >>>> Some of these have meteor trails, some are just nightscapes of the >>>> racetrack. >>>> >>>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157671611172012 >>>> >>>> Commments, critiques and helpful hints appreciated. >>>> >>>> as a gallery: >>>> http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157671611172012 >>>> >>>> a gallery with exposure data: >>>> http://www.fluidr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157671611172012 >>>> >>>> There is a lot to learn about photographing the track at night, such >>>> as how much moon you want in the sky, how to stitch panoramas, which >>>> lenses to use etc. On the K-1, every lens seems to show some >>>> vignetting, which will screw up panorama stitches. Using the profile >>>> for the 15-30 will correct that problem. Unfortunately, they don't >>>> seem to have a profile for the rokinon 24/1.4 and I haven't figured >>>> one out, so my longer/faster lens, which really needs to be >>>> stitched, is one that I can't yet stitch with. >>>> >>>> These photos were an experiment in trying to show students where to >>>> look, how to look through where you want to be, to where you want to >>>> go: >>>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157672457199916 >>>> >>>> I posted these links earlier, but just to keep everything together. >>>> >>>> These are pretty much all my photos that (I think) have meteor >>>> trails in them, selected only on whether I caught a meteor: >>>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157671490100111 >>>> >>>> These don't actually show the track, I was just experimenting with >>>> the astrotracer feature on my camera to photograph the milky way >>>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157671491502112 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) >>>> http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
