Thursday, August 2, 2012
Three Pix
These pix are single exposures taken today in very poor seeing conditions (the sun was in hazy cloud and shimmering like the reflection on the surface of a pond. Notice, however, that the focus seems a little better on these than my previous efforts. I simply attached a clothes peg to the focusing knob of the PST, and focusing became much, much easier!
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