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		<title>January AstroTrac Expedition &#8211; Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a good morning&#8217;s sleep, we woke at noon to another beautiful sunny day. Following a quick coffee jump start, we headed up to the top of the hill to check out the observatories. We were in astrophotography heaven &#8211; altitude, lots of big white domes, and clear skies! We dropped back into the IAC [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astrotrac.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7894579&amp;post=87&amp;subd=astrotrac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>January AstroTrac Expedition &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://astrotrac.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/january-astrotrac-expedition-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After driving half way back to the airport checking out potential sites, we were beginning to get concerned. It was past 5:00 pm and sunset was at 6:37 pm &#8211; we needed to find somewhere protected from the wind, and fast. In desperation, we headed back to the observatories and decided to compromise by stopping [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astrotrac.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7894579&amp;post=86&amp;subd=astrotrac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>January AstroTrac Expedition &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://astrotrac.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/january-astrotrac-expedition-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am delighted to report that we are now safely back from a highly successful trip. Amazing scenery and skies, lots of sleep deprivation, and over 42 hours gear testing in 4 nights. Not bad given the last minute change of location from Spain to the Canary Islands. We ended up taking two complete TT320X [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astrotrac.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7894579&amp;post=85&amp;subd=astrotrac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>January AstroTrac Expedition &#8211; Latest</title>
		<link>http://astrotrac.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/january-astrotrac-expedition-latest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a couple of very helpful posts on the forum today from Terry Medcalffe and Rob Keown I learnt that camping was prohibited in the Tenerife national park. I found a hiking blog site and rang the owner who advised that it would also be very cold. Things were starting to look less than ideal. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astrotrac.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7894579&amp;post=83&amp;subd=astrotrac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>January AstroTrac Expedition &#8211; Update</title>
		<link>http://astrotrac.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/january-astrotrac-expedition-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We checked the weather forecast for Madrid this morning and the weather looks pretty dire for Spain later this week with rain and snow forecast. We checked the weather in the Canary Islands, and its forecast clear, so we&#8217;ve rebooked our flights and car hire, and we&#8217;re off to Tenerife now. This means we are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astrotrac.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7894579&amp;post=75&amp;subd=astrotrac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>January AstroTrac Expedition</title>
		<link>http://astrotrac.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/january-astrotrac-expedition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We need to do some rigorous field testing of the new AstroTrac wedge, head and pier, and we need to get some product shots for the website and events this year, so what better way than to organise a mini expedition! We scoured the dark sky maps of Europe and settled on Spain. Our decision [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astrotrac.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7894579&amp;post=66&amp;subd=astrotrac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New AstroTrac Products for 2009</title>
		<link>http://astrotrac.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/new-astrotrac-products-for-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been making excellent progress over the Christmas break with not one, but three exciting new AstroTrac products. Many of you will have experience using a camera tripod with the AstroTrac, and its perfectly adequate with a camera lens or small refractor. For bigger lenses and 3-6 inch refractors or small reflectors, something more substantial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astrotrac.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7894579&amp;post=54&amp;subd=astrotrac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AstroTrac&#8217;s First Blog Post</title>
		<link>http://astrotrac.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/hello-world-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m Richard Taylor, the designer and founder of AstroTrac. I have a strong passion for astrophotography and designing equipment which makes it easier to take great astro images. I have a degree in Theoretical Physics and a background as a software developer and always hoped that one day I would find an occupation that combines [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astrotrac.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7894579&amp;post=165&amp;subd=astrotrac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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