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Met up with Jonas and Christian for Comdex in Vegas. The show is the smallest in years, and Key3Media (the organizer) is having financial problems. So, the conference itself wasn’t too crowded or hyped. On the other hand, it was easy and affordable to find a place to stay. We were at the Venetian..     The view from the Venetian, in infrared..     Mandatory cowboy and cowgirl (aka Glitter Gulch) shot..     Spent one day driving around…

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Bill and I drove about 30 miles east of Denver tonight into the ‘plains’ to get away from the light pollution for some deep-space photography. Here’s a couple of photos of the diffuse nebula in the constellation Orion.   These were shot with a Meade ETX-125, t-adapter, and Nikon D100. The object was tracked by the telescope’s motor drive unit while the camera exposed the CCD for 15s. The CCD was set to its highest sensitivity setting; HI-2 which is…

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