Hey Phil,
Good suggestions! I don't have a convenient truck shell like Richard,
but I was thinking about clamping some blackout cloth or a thick
plastic tarp to a rectangular frame I could clamp onto my rickety Orion
astronomy table. Then I could just draw the blackout cloth shut when
I'm not sitting in front of the screen.
Jeff
On Jan 30, 2004, at 9:42 AM, P T Chambers wrote:
> Hi
> I find that the dew protection ceases to be an issue if the whole
> computer
> has a dew shield. Read that as a cardboard or plasic box and the
> computer
> inside it. Prop up the front so you can see it easily.
>
> This not only keeps the dew at bay by shielding and also trapping the
> heat from the computer, but shields the sides so that the glow
> doesnt interfere with others.
>
> ---------
> Phil Chambers [ptchamb@No-Spam] (S.F. Bay Area - Calif. USA)
>
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Jeff Kirk wrote:
>
>> On Jan 29, 2004, at 10:49 PM, Rich N. wrote:
>>
>>> Come on guys, we haven't done note book screens for at
>>> least a year. ;-)
>>>
>>> Rich
>>
>> Yikes!
>>
>> At the risk of perpetuating this thread, I thought I'd mention that I
>> saw a neat little company at MacWorld that sells foldable glare hoods
>> for PowerBooks and various digital cameras.
>>
>> http://www.hoodmanusa.com/default.htm
>>
>> These are really intended principally for use in bright sunlight, but
>> I
>> thought they might be useful for star parties, too. The digital camera
>> hoods are particularly interesting, since they come with a transparent
>> plastic mount that is placed over the LCD screen on the back of the
>> camera with an easily removable adhesive. I'd been looking for
>> something to protect the LCD on my Canon EOS 10D, and this might fit
>> the bill.
>>
>> The screen hoods are pretty neat in principle, though I can't claim to
>> have used one in the field. They're angled inward, so they create a
>> sort of squared-off cone of protection around the screen. This hood,
>> coupled with a red filter (ha ha, you didn't expect to get off so
>> easily, did you? I had to mention a red filter), should be an
>> effective
>> combination at star parties.
>>
>> My big question is now how to keep my PowerBook from getting
>> condensation all over it. The design geniuses at Apple have produced
>> beautiful, powerful machines that get really freakin' cold outside at
>> night, and attract dew like... well, like telescope lenses. ;) Maybe
>> if
>> I packed the machine in salt....
>>
>> Jeff Kirk
>>
>>