From: "Milton Aupperle" <milton@outcastsoft.com>
Date: July 30, 2006 10:02:50 AM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: M13 Image
Hi Eric;
Thanks for the kind words. Astro IIDC is pretty good for doing variety
of imaging tasks.
Speaking of bugs. When I was a mining geologist working north of the
arctic circle, we used to wake up some mornings and it sounded like it
was raining on the tent and looked like it was dark and overcast
outside. Of course when I opened the tent flaps and had a look out, it
was sunny and what was causing the pitter pat noise and the darkness
was black flies and mosquitos covering the tent and trying to get in
at use. 100% DEET was useless (I think the black flies liked it as
meat tenderizer) and the only thing you could do was wear a headnet,
tie off your shirt sleeves with tape and tuck your pant cuffs in your
socks. Of course we had a heatwave one year and it was 85+°F during
the day and being north of 65 latitude, we had 100% daylight for at
least a month, so weraing mutiple layers of clothing while doing 25+
miles per day of tundra walking was just a "joy".
TTYL..
Milton Aupperle
--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "Eric" <eddot1103a@...> wrote:
Nice image. I keep forgetting that with IIDC I can explore limited
exposures and DSO work. Will have to try it sometime. Your
experience with the beetle reminds me of my nightly one with
mosquitos. I basically live next to swamps so they are horrendous on
most summer nights. 100% deet, jacket, pants, hat and gloves are
always the routine during the summer months here.
Eric