Posts Made By: Brian Pope

thanks for your input people and monday was clear... and freezing!

I take it very few are using this 201xt ? lol

one more slightly diff angle whilst he dries his wings.It is a shame it took me 80 digital pics to get a dozen good ones, mydigital always wanting to focus on the brick..I am gonna have to learn some more.
Brian

speaking of butterfly, It was very amusing to myself that my wife had talked me into going to a butterfly show in Cincinnati the day before my moth broke out. Therefore, Here is one from the show. I tried to find a similiar type of coloration just for fun.
Thanks tyler, nice pic
Brian

Jeff, this may be cheating,but, I found this beauty at the butterfly show, and it just kinda goes with your orchid.
Brian

Nice pic, love the way it kinda shimmies as it is hanging there, lol
Brian

wow, nice pic!

Rod, thanks for the warning, but, I do think a missing person is just cause for some lights....maybe you shoulda packed up and asked if you could help?
Brian

Been nothing but a solo deal for me, wife could care less. My first star thingy was a local park star gaze. I got the guts to go by myself, missed the short meeting and then I asked where everybody going, up the hill to where the scopes were. 'bout 10 scopes set up for people to look thru, nice. What I found kinda funny, and tough luck was that none of the scope bringers hardly talked to each other or mingled. Definitely a few snotty types who been around along time, obvious. Not one person said hi to me till I broke the ice and said hi. A lot of them tried to be way to tech for the people who were there, maybe trying to pump up the wow factor. One guy brought a 16" dob Meade that he packed in his van and wound up being the most approachable. He and I were last to leave, observing and trying to see stuff thru the cloudy night. That was the good part, the rest of the night was a lot of being talked down to, until I let them know I have looked up in the sky also. I guess if you are the one with the telescope everybody else is a one step above slime. Most seemed this way. Out of the 10 scopers and their posse, 3 were outgoing,2generous and nice. The most unapproachable were the local college professors, so sad. When I left, I left with about the same as I came, nobody wanted to talk about their clubs, emails, hooking up again for more sky observing, believe me I asked em all about thier clubs or where they view.
I feel better now that I got that off my chest whether anybody reads this or not.
I did tell them all about this site
Brian

Really like the blue hue! great shot.
Brian