From: Willie Strickland <cwskas@earthlink.net>

Date: December 6, 2009 12:43:40 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: focal reducer for DMK

Have any of you used a focal reducer with your DMK camera.  I have a DMK214AF and I have used it with a .5 focal reducer from Atik.  With the scope I am using, I really need something more along the lines of .63 I think.  Just wondering if anyone had hany recommendations.

I am attempting to capture the occultation of TYC 1252-803-1 by (423) Diotima this morning.  For occultations it would be nice to have the wider field.  I was able to get the targets and watch Diotima move closer to the star, but now I have nothing.

We are supposed to be in occultation right now.  It would be nice if the field was larger so I could watch a nearby star and know that I am still getting data and my tracking is still on target.  I really have no way of knowing until the occultation is supposed to be over.

It is quite cloudy here but I was getting some image through the clouds.  We will see how it goes.

Willie