From: "Kurt Mihalco" <mihalco@pacbell.net>

Date: May 21, 2006 10:05:30 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Alan Friedman's Jupiter

Hi Milton,

I believe the Lumenara rep's name is Thomas Maroney.

Regards,

Kurt Mihalco

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@...> wrote:

Hi Alan;

On 10-May-06, at 3:20 PM, Alan Friedman wrote:

Hi Milton -

On May 8, 2006, at 1:04 PM, Milton Aupperle wrote:

I didn't get to spend a lot of time inside at the exhibits - the

solar

star party was big and crowded - I had a two scope solar rig to

attend

to. It did occur to me that a representation of The Imaging Source

cameras and Astro IIDC would have been a nice addition. The folks

Adirondack Video Astronomy had the Lumenera cameras (and a rep

from

Lumenera) out on display.

You don't recall the name the Lumenera rep do you? I might know

them.

I used to work with the guys who started Lumenera. We left the

same

Ottawa camera company within the space of about 3 weeks of each

other. Back in 1999, I was pushing the company we were with to

look

at marketing the high speed imaging end of Astronomy (they used

CMOS

sensors then, not good sensitivity but very cheap to purchase at

1280x1024 sizes), but the VP and others did not see any market for

it.

NEAF is an interesting venue to visit - especially if you are in

the

market for new equipment. Almost everyone in the industry is

there

with

their wares.

The Imaging Source guys from North Carolina would not be able to

attend as they are no longer with The Imaging Source. TIS have a

distributor in the USA, but the main office, support and technical

end are in Germany.

And we don't make enough on sales of Astro IIDC to cover the cost

even paying for registration to such an event, let alone air fare

hotels.

TTYL..

Milton J. Aupperle

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