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 comet Holmes 17PAfter getting home from trivia I decided to “quickly” take a few shots of the comet since the sky was clear and I wanted to get a couple of more shots of the comet before it disappears…

Only problem is I tried to get a few other things as well as messing with the Starry Night software my brother has in order to figure out if I really do want to try and get a telescope after the new year. I stayed up late, only got to bed very close to midnight. The picture to the left was taken with my D200 and my Sigma 120-300mm lens with a 2X converter This is full frame at 600mm I think (makes it 900mm with 1.5x of D200 sensor). ISO 1600, 10 sec at f/5.6

After getting home, I had wanted to chat with Brian about telescopes and stuff, thinking about getting one or at least a platform to allow long exposures with my camera and my 300mm lens (which with the 2x converter and the D200’s 1.5 multiplier comes out to 900mm, almost as much as his smaller telescope – 1200mm).

Picked up Eric and after arriving at Hooters, David showed soon afterward. Jaime was looking great and seemed in a really fantastic mood, the two guys I saw at the bar on Sunday were there again, they seem to either be friends or one of them is a “boyfriend”. The guy with the bandanna around his head under is hair aka. was in true “hair band” form. Along with a long blond hair look and very young looking face he could pass for a very young member of Def Leopard. We started off the game with a perfect first round and I helped the “Pam” team with the bonus question, maybe I shouldn’t have but then they helped with a question in the last round that helped us a lot. Our second round was just as good, acing it and then we stumbled in the third missing the first two, getting the last two and then missing the bonus question to end up tied in first with another team. The tie breaker is always a song length and nobody on the team though about timing it. We guessed and it just so happened that the other team guessed the exact same time, so we did another and they ended up getting closer, we were over by about 40 seconds, damn. So we ended up with only second even though we were first the whole rest of the game. Final score, 62 out of 77