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> Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- 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.
