"33" Doubles Meeting 2000
September 1-3
Sena de Luna, Leon
"Ambience is all" (Eddy O'connor, Australia)

The following images were taken on the night of 2, September, 2000 with a Hi-8 Videocamera equipped with a built-in infrared emision system. Since image chips normally used in videocameras are sensible to this spectrum of radiation, the final result is the posibility to record images in the night without disturbing night-vision. In fact you don't even note there is a person taking images. Anyway, the range of distance for the infrared beam is up to 3 mts (about 9 feet). This is the reason some images in this page are brighter than others.

I must sincerelly say my best "thanks" to Peter Atkinson that videotaped us for almost 2 hours. About the picture quality, please take into account that infrared home-type videosystems are only black & white. Also, In order to transfer the images to the computer, a "Snappy" capturing device was used.


 
 
Luis is ready to mount the Pentax 20x60 binoculars over the Manfrotto tripod
 Paolo is ready for observing after tightening every screw
Pepe and Paolo consult some data. At right you can see Pepe's Intes 6 Mak John checks some globulars in Sagittarius in his Televue-101
Paolo checks the Intes quality (wonderful after cooling) Luis aims the binoculars towards Lyra
Ana observing easy orange and blue Albireo on the Maksutov Maria Jesus observes Vega thorough the binoculars
Luis observes a doubles thorough Paolo's Televue Pronto Paolo observes the first split of Epsilon Lyra thorough the Pentax
Pepita demonstrates how women have more sensitivity to coloration on doubles Ana looks for M57 in Lyra
Paolo lokks for another double John looks for help locating a double in Cygnus .....
.... checks the position ..... ..... and aims the 4 refractor towards it
Ana splits a medium-difficulty double Pepe checks the split
Pepita and Juan exchange some ideas with Pepe Pepe explains celestial coordinates to Maria-Jesús using his GP mount
doubts are finally solved Every sky object has its own instrument. Observing constellations on a good night is also a pleasure

(C) 2000, The Spirit of 33