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To: MarineBrat
...bumble-bees and MOSQUITOS!!!...

Here's what you need: Bug Suit

I spent many a mosquito-filled morning in one like this waiting on the side of the Shuttle landing strip for the Orbiter to land.

The mosquitoes and no-see-ums there will carry you away if you're not covered. I also had a pair of mesh gloves. Had to operate cameras so I couldn't just put my hands in my pockets.

16 posted on 07/04/2005 10:20:29 AM PDT by FReepaholic (When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading)
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To: tscislaw

That's a cool bug suit! I could have used it last evening. The skeeters were only bad for an hour or so, and then the bugs went away for the night.

We were at about 5300 feet, but the temp stayed fairly warm. I think it was about 60 deg. A very nice night for observing. The San Joaquin valley was very hazy though, and the light scatter was bad.

I never printed out a finder chart for the comet because my buddy said that he had the exact coordinates. Well then his digital setting circles on the 16" died, which made it a hard to find object. I pulled out my sky atlas and determined that the comet was about 3 deg. northeast of Spica, but all I could find there was a verrrry faint fuzzy. I'm guessing that was the comet because I swept all around there, and quadruple checked my coordinates on the sky map. We stayed till about midnight and then drove home 1.5/hrs. (yawn)


19 posted on 07/04/2005 10:42:36 AM PDT by MarineBrat (We are taxed twice as much by our idleness. -- Benjamin Franklin)
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