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Subject: [OM] Re: Yet more adventures in rocket photography
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 23:07:27 -0600
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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