We were blessed with good weather here: clear, no haze, no wind. Was hoping
to silhouette a downtown Charleston church spire on the face of the setting
sun, but TPE was off by a bit. Next time I'll go by the day before to make
sure they line up. Used E-620 set on manual, attached to an Astrotech
refractor (about 480mm) and a Tokina RMC 2X magnifier. Filtered with
Thousand Oaks Solar film in a homemade holder:
http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=14833
Charlie
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Peter Klein <pklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Seattle weather strikes again. The sun only came out a few minutes before
> the eclipse was over. I had made a pinhole camera to watch it, and at
> about 4:05pm, I managed to see a tiny sliver of the sun shaved off. If you
> look hard, you can see the slight flattening of the sun's disk at the four
> o'clock position. It was actually at the ten o'clock position, but since
> I'm using a projected image, it's upside down and backwards.
>
> But hey, doesn't my Pana-Leica Summilux have great bokeh?
>
> I also used a 300mm lens stopped down to f/22 to project the sun's image
> onto my jacket sleeve. That looked better, but I couldn't photograph it.
> :-) I await the vastly better pics from those of you from sunnier climes.
>
> --Peter
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