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Stereo Images from the Table Mountain Star Party, 2000
For detailed information about this premier Washington astronomical event, try their web site at: www.tmpsa.com. It was held July 20-23, 2000. I brought Ralph, the Celestron C14. For you shutter bugs with no idea how telescopes correlate, an analogy is a 3,910mm f/11 catadioptric. Oddly, I haven't taken any stereo images of Ralph itself, but a couple of it are in the "Astro Photos" section.
This year, I heard 1600 people signed up and 1200 showed up. I can believe that.

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(178kb) This is at Lion Rock, a place with a grand panorama of the Cacades from the North through the west and southeast. This photo is looking down about 70 degrees, and the thing that looks like a pathway is a rock slide trench. (103kb) This is a good sample of the scope field. There must've been oh, 300? scopes there. I'm standing just about in the middle of it (for orientation, see the aerial photo at the TMSP web site), looking north.

(162kb) This is a detail of the left half of the scope field image. (158kb) This is a detail of the right half of the scope field image. The foil you see everywhere is really effective at keeping the items underneath cool. I use those emergency foil blankets.

(165kb) "Almost 29 inches" is what a note taped to the box of Jim Bielaga's monster truss-tube Dobsonian read. I think that's an eight-foot ladder on the ground to the left. (!) This is in the NW corner of the field facing ESE. (184kb) At the other extreme is this cute little Maksutov. Three inches? I used a really wide base for this photo (a foot?), so your eyes will really flex when going from near to far objects. Woo hooo!

$Big Refractor$ (152kb) Here we have a big refractor - seven inches, I believe. Again, someone informed me that was a Takahashi. One thing is certain: I'm going to have to spend more time talking to other people at this shindig. This is in the central field, facing east. (152kb) The eight-inch "John Deere refractor tractor". Yes, those are wooden ducks on the table and tulips on the ground. Very theme!

(195kb) At the north end on the field, I found this wonderful (though a bit large for the Subaru with Ralph in it) home-built wooden variable-height (astronomer's) chair. Johnny Rocket - you seein' this? (55kb) All good things must come to and end. I shot this pair out the driver's window on the way home. The baseline was maybe 150 feet apart (less than 2 seconds at 90 fps). It kind of worked, but I had to concentrate more on not crashing.

PHOTO (link)	DESCRIPTION	DESCRIPTION
	(178kb) This is at Lion Rock, a place with a grand panorama of the Cacades from the North through the west and southeast. This photo is looking down about 70 degrees, and the thing that looks like a pathway is a rock slide trench.	(103kb) This is a good sample of the scope field. There must've been oh, 300? scopes there. I'm standing just about in the middle of it (for orientation, see the aerial photo at the TMSP web site), looking north.
	(162kb) This is a detail of the left half of the scope field image.	(158kb) This is a detail of the right half of the scope field image. The foil you see everywhere is really effective at keeping the items underneath cool. I use those emergency foil blankets.
	(165kb) "Almost 29 inches" is what a note taped to the box of Jim Bielaga's monster truss-tube Dobsonian read. I think that's an eight-foot ladder on the ground to the left. (!) This is in the NW corner of the field facing ESE.	(184kb) At the other extreme is this cute little Maksutov. Three inches? I used a really wide base for this photo (a foot?), so your eyes will really flex when going from near to far objects. Woo hooo!
$Big Refractor$	(152kb) Here we have a big refractor - seven inches, I believe. Again, someone informed me that was a Takahashi. One thing is certain: I'm going to have to spend more time talking to other people at this shindig. This is in the central field, facing east.	(152kb) The eight-inch "John Deere refractor tractor". Yes, those are wooden ducks on the table and tulips on the ground. Very theme!
	(195kb) At the north end on the field, I found this wonderful (though a bit large for the Subaru with Ralph in it) home-built wooden variable-height (astronomer's) chair. Johnny Rocket - you seein' this?	(55kb) All good things must come to and end. I shot this pair out the driver's window on the way home. The baseline was maybe 150 feet apart (less than 2 seconds at 90 fps). It kind of worked, but I had to concentrate more on not crashing.