Year in review!

[artbone]

San Miguel New Years.



Carol and me at New Years party at Anodo's house.



How did I get into this place with all these FREAKS?




Tangoing in Buenos Aires.




Sunrise in the New Mexico desert.



Fans at La Carrera Panamericana.

[h2olawyer]

Unfortunately, I had no Vision photos for this past year.   :'(

However, I do have a couple from my travels to some dark sky sites in Wyoming & Oklahoma.  At least these give an indication of why I haven't been around here much lately.

H₂O

Weekend Under the Stars: Fox Park, Wyoming



Three from the Okie-Tex Star Party near Kenton, Oklahoma (far west in the panhandle)

My camp / observing site.  My scope is covered & to the right of Photo.  Other scope is a friend's who travelled there from Ft. Collins with me.



A beautiful scope (home made).  Only 10 inches of aperture, but the optical quality of the mirrors is incredible!



My cousin Dennis Webb with his scope - a 17.5 inch truss tube Dobsonian - he built the scope using Coulter Odyssey II mirrors.  A beautiful light bucket.  I wanted to build a scope of a similar size, but I am limited to what I can fit through the back door of the camper.

[don_vanecek]

The Vision on the dyno in May 2009

[artbone]

The Vision on the dyno in May 2009

How much HP did it make?

[don_vanecek]

 General / TechTalk / Re: Don Vancek's Dyno Test Report

Sorry, I don't know how to post the address but the post and dyno test is still there, you need to go back to about May. Thanks again Dave for posting the dyno sheets.

It made 43.39 HP and a somewhat controversial 58.46 Ft lbs torque. 

[akvision]

http://picasaweb.google.ca/usa584/MyPhotos#

Here is some of my 2009 AlaskaVision adventures in Colorado with RHPAW and Inane.

Was a great year and next will be better!

Jim Dahl, Ketchikan, Alaska...."AlaskaVision"

[Night Vision]

                                              Contestants in the 2009 Vision 500  :D :D
                                                                        we were all winners that day

[Tiger]

                                             Contestants in the 2009 Vision 500  :D :D
                                                                        we were all winners that day

8) A great weekend indeed N_V...Looking forward to the next one... 8)

In this picture from your right to left.. In the blue top, #1, Night_Vision, #2, the tall guy is Wolf, #3 is Joevac, #4 is ME!!, next up is #5 JasonM and last but not least, #6...and no your not seeing double...then again I suppose you are...Its Night_Visions twin brother!!! LOL

                          8).......TIGER........ 8)

[Brian Moffet]

Here's a photo taken on my way in to work a little while ago.

And on my trip home tonight.   Depending on the weather, it may be my last ride of the year (sitting at 44,949 miles on the bike.)

in case you're wondering, the Palace of Fine arts is the dome, with Alcatraz Island off to the right.

[QBS]

It is really great to put faces to names.  Very interesting that the demograpics are so similar, even down to hair color.  We are all old enough to appreciate crotch rockets and also old enough to know better.