At 06:58 PM 30/04/2004, you wrote:
>I went out to the Range for a tracking mission two weeks ago. I arrived
>the night before our mission and, after dinner, drove out to San Augustine
>Pass with my battered, old OM-1N (in its beautiful new Morgan Sparks red
>mark lizard!).
>
>I knew that a Terrier-Orion sounding rocket launch was scheduled sometime
>between 20:50 and 21:50 by the published times for the road blocks on US
>Highway 70, which crosses the Range joining Las Cruces and Alamagordo. I
>set up my tripod behind the porta-potties just east of the summit and waited.
Porta-potties. *Always* a good place to be near. ;-)
[snip]
>If I get another chance, I'll use a slightly wider lens, say a 24,
>oriented vertically (now that I know the launch position) and stop down
>one stop. I welcome suggestions for scanning and processing the image.
The only suggestion I have is that I be there with you for the next launch,
with an ice chest full of cold ones. 8^>
Garth
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