BREAKING NEWS
July 27th, 2005 | 
Author: NASA grounds the space shuttle program while engineers determine the effects of debris falling from Discovery during blastoff.
We are grounded once again. 
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That’s too bad, but better safe than sorry. Looks like Discovery was not damaged by it, but the jury is still out.
Me again, I wanted to comment on the post below but it wouldn’t bring up the comment box.
I wanted another cap (just in case) for my scope and ordered one with a hartmann mask built in. It has triangular openings which they “claim” adds a diffraction element, enhancing the mask. It’s coming tomorrow and will try it out Saturday night. I’ll let you know how it works.
Nice. I’m interested in how that works. What type of scope do you have? I don’t recall seeing it but I probably just missed it.