Good job Chris. I am very envious too. I was all set for yesterday's
event. Rigged up a Thousand Oaks Solar Filter for my Astrotech and hooked
up the E-500 with an intervening Tokina doubler. Did some practice shots
last week on sunspots to get the exposure right. I was all set. Damn! We
were socked in with heavy clouds all day and into the night. That's it for
me unless I can figure out a way to make it to 2117. Oh well, I still have
my slides from 2005.
Charlie
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Yesterday afternoon and evening were spent observing the transit of
> Venus. None of us will ever have this opportunity in our lifetime, unless
> my goal of immortality proves successful (so far, it's working).
>
> I had earlier made a solar projection screen to fit on a smallish
> Tasco 60x600 telescope with a zoom eyepiece:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/7344944140/in/photostream
>
> I used it earlier to observe the recent solar eclipse, and occasionally
> use it to observe sunspots, though the angular resolution of a refractor of
> this size limits those observations to the larger sunspots.
>
> This is a typical photo of the transit of Venus, taken at 2130Z:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/7344944152/in/photostream/
>
> I took a few without any filtering, and more using a Wratten #15 deep
> yellow filter to highlight the sunspots.
>
> Chris
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