Great story and pictures Dan. Enjoyed looking at them.
On 21/8/17, Daniel J. Matyola, discombobulated, unleashed: >Although I was very interested in the eclipse, photographing it was not in >the stars for me: > >1. We are far from the line of totality. >2. I was a bit cloudy here today. >3. I don't really have the needed skills. >4. I don't have the right equipment: no appropriate lens, no solar filter. >5. I had to work today, and there was a brief I had to modify and get out. >6. My good glasses came apart this morning, and I couldn't find my extra >pair; all I had was a pair of drug store readers. > >Nevertheless, it is the last solar eclipse I can expect to see in my >lifetime. > >So, yesterday I dragged our my old 6 inch reflector telescope for the first >time in more than a decade, and set it up on the front walk. A little >after 2:00, I handed the latest revision of my brief to my secretary and >drove home. Clouds were obscuring the sun for much of the time, but it >broke our every now and then. > >I had a little easel on which I could focus the image from the eyepiece of >the telescope onto an index card. I used to identify sunspots this way, >decades ago. > >I got a few fuzzy images that way, and some interesting image off a >notebook held in from of the open end of the telescope, rather than out the >eyepiece. > >Just for amusement value, I will share my images with whomever cares to >look. I am pretending these are artistic abstract images, rather than >astronomical ones. > >https://www.photo.net/gallery/1107496#//Sort-Newest/All-Categories/All- >Time/Page-1 > >K-5 IIs, FA 100 mm macro F 2.8 > >Enjoy. <G> -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ UK Shoot / Edit and || (O) | Live Broadcast News ---------- <www.seeingeye.tv> _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
