The Guardian for this meeting was Bruce Mowbray. The comments are by Bruce Mowbray.

Bruce Mowbray: 's current display-name is "Bruce".
Bruce Mowbray: Hi, Riddle.
Riddle Sideways: back, sorry had to get lunch
Bruce Mowbray: np.
Bruce Mowbray: Trying to get my AO to work.
Riddle Sideways: you have your Jet pack on
Bruce Mowbray: Just watched Ohio State beat Michigan State by 20 points.
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, my jet pack. Would that interfere with an AO?
Riddle Sideways: is the jetpack the wrong direction?
Bruce Mowbray: Let me look....
Riddle Sideways: shouldn't the jets be down
Riddle Sideways: or maybe those are the air intakes
Bruce Mowbray: Better now?
Bruce Mowbray: I think I have it upside down now.
Riddle Sideways: yes, think that is better
Riddle Sideways: oh, maybe you are right
Bruce Mowbray: I've never worn it the other way.
Riddle Sideways: have never worn a jetpack, so don't really know
Bruce Mowbray: Had to send my drone off for repair.
Bruce Mowbray: To Georgia.
Riddle Sideways: oh! what happened?
Bruce Mowbray: The only thing wrong with it was the SD card was bad.
Bruce Mowbray: I could have replaced it right here at home.
Riddle Sideways: if you had known
Bruce Mowbray: Instead, it has been gone for over a week and it cost me $113.
Bruce Mowbray: Live and learn.
Bruce Mowbray: I will be back by Tuesday, at the latest.
Riddle Sideways: and it shot all those days you were going to fly
Bruce Mowbray: The morning that it went "bad" I flew a 26-point mission over the stream in the field across the road from the farm.
Bruce Mowbray: Well, it has been raining mostly, so I probably would not have flown anyway.
Riddle Sideways: there have been a rash of SD card burnouts here too
Riddle Sideways: really did not know what it was that first one
Bruce Mowbray: Hmmm. Mine was a SanDisk 32GB
Bruce Mowbray: I'd made several vids with it with no problems.
Riddle Sideways: have some of those now
Riddle Sideways: however, there are many different grades of those cards
Bruce Mowbray: I'm going to stick with 16GB for now.... when the drone gets back.
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, mine was an Extreme #3
Riddle Sideways: go to some labeled Endurance
Bruce Mowbray: It caused a "Camera disconnected" error - when the camera was actually fine.
Bruce Mowbray: Hmmm. Endurance.
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Bruce Mowbray: I'll remember that.
Riddle Sideways: they are more for vid, goPro, surveillance
Bruce Mowbray: Well, I'm making vids.
Bruce Mowbray: Never had the problem before two weeks ago.
Riddle Sideways: and writing over the same bits makes SD go bad
Bruce Mowbray: I've been studying up on transmission speeds, etc.
Bruce Mowbray: Well, I write over and over the same bits.
Bruce Mowbray: So.... BAAAAAAD.
Bruce Mowbray: It's not like RAM memory, huh?
Riddle Sideways: nope
Bruce Mowbray: Well then, you can only fill up the SD card once?
Bruce Mowbray: How about formatting it after every vid?
Riddle Sideways: no, many more, but not infinite
Riddle Sideways: Hey QT
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Qt!
Qt Core: Hi all
Riddle Sideways: formatting would not really hep either
Bruce Mowbray: So, you'd recommend formatting after every vid?
Bruce Mowbray: not recommend...
Bruce Mowbray: Hmmm.
Riddle Sideways: not recommended
Bruce Mowbray: Sounds like I'd need a lot of SD cards, then.
Riddle Sideways: well delete the files off.
Riddle Sideways: have a spare SD around
Bruce Mowbray: Doesn't formatting do that?
Bruce Mowbray: I usually delete the files without formatting.
Riddle Sideways: formatting doesn't really map out the bad spots like it should
Bruce Mowbray: Hmmmm.
Bruce Mowbray: Wonder what would happen if I used a government-grade shredder.
Riddle Sideways: QT, please change this topic
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, Qt. We're counting on you.
Riddle Sideways: or Bruce, how was your Election
Bruce Mowbray: Well, everything I voted for lost - except our Senator.
Bruce Mowbray: Ohio is VERY red.
Bruce Mowbray: And the guy from the 12th district won again.
Bruce Mowbray: (he won in the special election a few months ago, you will recall).
Riddle Sideways: was that the bad guy?
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, Balderson.
Riddle Sideways: oh remembering
Bruce Mowbray: Ohio's 12th district.
Bruce Mowbray: There's also a bad guy in Iowa's 4th District -- where I lived as a child.
Bruce Mowbray: The racist....
Bruce Mowbray: I've repressed his name.... Steve.... something.
Bruce Mowbray: Steve KING.
Bruce Mowbray: https://ballotpedia.org/Iowa%27s_4th_Congressional_District_election,_2018
Bruce Mowbray: I grew up in Fort Dodge.
Riddle Sideways: isn't Steven King the horror writer
Bruce Mowbray: That's another one.
Bruce Mowbray: Sorta like two Sean Carroll's.
Riddle Sideways: Dodge like in Gun Smoke?
Bruce Mowbray: No, That was Kansas.
Bruce Mowbray: Dodge City.
Riddle Sideways: so confused
Bruce Mowbray: Sean Carroll the geneticist and Sean Carroll the cosmologist.
Bruce Mowbray: How's life in Milan, Qt?
Qt Core: wet
Bruce Mowbray: Ahhhh.
Bruce Mowbray: We've been wet all week, but today is sunny -- but very cold.
Riddle Sideways: stay inside
Qt Core: in past couple weeks heavy rain in all Italy, with about 30 deaths
Bruce Mowbray: My farmers have FINALLY been able to get in the fields to harvest the corn.
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, I saw videos of the floods in Venice.
Bruce Mowbray: St. Mark's Square.
Bruce Mowbray: Water up to the knees or above.
Qt Core: 4th highest in some 80 years in Venice

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Bruce Mowbray: Wow.

Bruce Mowbray: And in California, where Riddle is, they're having horrible fires.
Bruce Mowbray: Whole towns are being wiped out.
Bruce Mowbray: Ohio seems boring. . . compared to Italy and Calif.
Qt Core: many would spare such excitement...
Bruce Mowbray: For sure.
Bruce Mowbray: Doing any astronomy recently, Qt?
Riddle Sideways: bad fires
Bruce Mowbray: My nephew makes his own telescopes. . .
Bruce Mowbray: and gets excellent photos of nebulae.
Bruce Mowbray: star clusters, etc.
Qt Core: nice
Bruce Mowbray: Ye, he is really quite a brilliant guy.
Riddle Sideways: grinding mirrors takes so long
Qt Core: yesterday a former member of our groups visited us and showed his latest works, he now lives Near Austria, in the Alps, with a 15 min drive he is at 2000m
Bruce Mowbray: Here's my nephew's FB page with photos he's taken recently.
Bruce Mowbray: https://www.facebook.com/robert.dick.712
Riddle Sideways: wow
Bruce Mowbray: He MADE that telescope himself.
Bruce Mowbray: Has to wait hours for proper exposure on the distant galaxies.
Bruce Mowbray: It would be good to be in the mountains, like your friend, Qt.
Bruce Mowbray: Less light pollution and fog, I suppose.
Bruce Mowbray: I don't think my nephew grinds his own mirrors. . . maybe, but
Bruce Mowbray: I know he makes the tubes, cameras, and stuff.
Bruce Mowbray: He special orders things and puts it all together.
Qt Core: yes, as he is retired he is volunteering driving ambulances around so he got to discover the best places around
Bruce Mowbray: electronics, etc.
Bruce Mowbray: Ahhhh.
Bruce Mowbray: What a life!
Bruce Mowbray: Do you still have your aquarium camera, Riddle?
Qt Core: this is his fb page, with both his pics and random stuff ;-)
Riddle Sideways: that was the 2nd SD to breakdown
Bruce Mowbray: kk.
Bruce Mowbray: sry.
Qt Core: https://www.facebook.com/alessandro.cipolatbares
Bruce Mowbray: ty, Qt.
Riddle Sideways: have 2 fishcams
Qt Core: to lighten his setup he is leaving the big telescopes at home and enjoying large field photo with "almost" normal camera and lenses
Bruce Mowbray: WOW! That telescope is EnOrmOUS!
Bruce Mowbray: Beautiful photography.
Bruce Mowbray: His photos of Andromeda are really spectacular.
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Bruce Mowbray: My pharmacy just called to say a Rx is ready for pickup.
Qt Core: yes, he is often published on Italian astronomy magazines
Bruce Mowbray: Quite accomplished.
Bruce Mowbray: In the winter time, I switch from drone photography to microscopy.
Bruce Mowbray: Too cold to fly drones.
Qt Core: and still he says tyhat the time he like more is when he just observe the sky with his bare eye
Qt Core: he seems to do it at 2000m at around -10 / -15 C in winter
Bruce Mowbray: THAT's COLD!
Bruce Mowbray: Really, his work is VERY good.
Qt Core: when he talked about his now simplified (and cheaper) setup i almost joked about his clothing being more expensive than his camera ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: Ha ha.
Bruce Mowbray: Does he live in the Dolomites?
Qt Core: No, in Aosta, the other side of Italy, up to the French borders
Bruce Mowbray: I remember coming through the Dolomites on my way to Italy... OK, the other side.
Bruce Mowbray: French speaking side.
Bruce Mowbray: I went through Innsbruck.
Riddle Sideways: great photos in his gallery
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, really good work.
Bruce Mowbray: I meant to say 'western side' -- near France.
Bruce Mowbray: I don't thin k I've ever seen a better photo of Andromeda.
Bruce Mowbray: Superb color.
Bruce Mowbray: Well, guys, I need to scoot into town and pick up my meds.
Bruce Mowbray: Have a beautiful weekend...
Bruce Mowbray: and stay dry, if you can.
Bruce Mowbray: also, safe from wildfires.
Qt Core: he is going in Namibia in the spring (one of the darkest sky in the world AND in the austral hemisphere
Riddle Sideways: ok
Qt Core: bye Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: Oh great -- Africa!
Riddle Sideways: bye bruce
Bruce Mowbray: bye for now.
Riddle Sideways: need to find out what that noise outside is
Qt Core: ok
Riddle Sideways: thanks for the visit and photos
Qt Core: Bye