Probably the best reason for playing around with this equipment is the friends found under the skies. Here are the beginnings of a rogue’s gallery.
On Maui, 2005, together with our friend, Alex Filippenko, Astronomer, U.C. Berkeley
(beside my Mak-Cas 7”)
AIC (Advanced Imaging Conference)
San Jose, California
November, 2007
AIC, at the DoubleTree Hotel
with Steve Mandel
(a friend from New Mexico Skies imaging, and conference emcee)
Blake, with Adam Block
(astro- photographer previously with Kitt Peak)
with Brad Ehrhorn,
RC Optical Systems
(I love my RCOS RC-16!)