Mat great images! I'm still struggling with afocal using my D7000 on an etx (I haven't tried it out yet on the 10" LX-50 which I'll use for the transit) I thin you mentioned this before but which eyepiece and camera lens settings did you use? With my Panoptic 22mm eyepiece and my 50 f/1.8 lens I still couldn't get the whole image in the camera. My wife's little point and shoot did a better job but the exposure's all wrong (stupid auto modes) Thanks for the info! Howard --- On Tue, 5/22/12, Hutchings, Mat (H USA) <mat.hutchings@siemens.com> wrote:
From: Hutchings, Mat (H USA) <mat.hutchings@siemens.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Images of the eclipse from Cedar City. To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2012, 9:01 AM The filter was one I made about 15 years ago with the solar film sold by Tuthill. It is a full aperature filter for my 8" f5.7 dob. I don't think that filter material is available any longer, which is a shame. The camera was my Nikon D40, handheld for afocal photography at the eyepiece.
For previous solar images taken recently with this setup, I edited the color balance in Photoshop to make the sun appear yellow. But I thought I would keep these images the way they were shot, since almost all the others I saw posted were yellow/orange. The yellow/orange solar images are very pleasing to the eye, but variety is also nice.
Mat
-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Patrick Wiggins Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 2:41 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Images of the eclipse from Cedar City.
Hi Mat,
What did you use to get the pictures?
Specifically what filter were you using to get those colors?
patrick
On 21 May 2012, at 18:24, Hutchings, Mat (H USA) wrote:
Hi all;
Here is a link to some of the images I took of the eclispe from Cedar City: https://picasaweb.google.com/1028899789 ... d2R---hpgE<https://picasaweb.google.com/102889978938539029003/May212012?authkey=Gv1sRgCMGdgd2R---hpgE>
I think it is cool that you can see lunar craters on the limb of the moon in sillouete. In the last image you can also see what I suppose would be considered Bailey's Beads, but since this was not a total eclipse, the effect was minimal. Someone correct me if wrong about that.
I had a really great time observing with Jeff Porter at an elementary school near his mother's house. Our two families were the only serious observers there. Some others did come by and we shared the views from our telescopes and shared our eclipse glasses.
Really enjoyable to me was seeing and hearing the reactions of my children throughout the event. As someone else also posted, I was struck by the "weak" sunlight and the cool temperature. What a day!
Mat
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