Solar Eclipse May 20, 2012 - Updated
Hi All,
The Solar Eclipse in Indianapolis, Indiana was almost washed out, we had thunder storms around 5pm and almost washed out my view, but cleared enough by 8:00pm to start capturing the first contact & partial phase around 8:24pm, unfortunately thick clouds killed most of the views, except for a few minutes when the clouds thinned enough, i was able to capture a couple of keepers! This is me watching it from up high to clear those dang trees! Thanks to my artist friends Lyn and her Hubby for watching my booth at the Art show while I went off to shoot these images!
80mm F6 University Optics Refractor, 2x Barlow, Solar Filter, Canon Rebel Xsi
ISO 400, 1/640 second exposure, remote triggered!
Best Regards,
John Chumack
www.galacticimages.com
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Heh, heh, I tried to cheat. I
Heh, heh, I tried to cheat. I used my PST to see if I could glimpse the moon approaching the sun before it set, but I didn't have a very good horizon and I didn't see any sign of the moon. I was fun trying though.
-John
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yep, I thought about doing
yep,
I thought about doing this in H-Alpha too...but did not want to risk damage to my H-Alpha rig while traveling at shows.
It would have been cool to detect the Moon against some prominences before first contact!
Cool shot, John. You
Cool shot, John. You captured the sunspots nicely.
Dave
Thanks Dave!
Thanks Dave!