Impressive! Both your photo results and the effort you expended on pursuit of them!
Paul via phone > On Aug 21, 2017, at 5:58 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
