Thanks, Joe. Yeah, that sunspot group was the only way I could maintain focus with the setup I was using. The camera’s viewing screen is so small it’s hard to see any detail for focusing. I don’t use “auto” mode because the stock algorithm in “auto” mode tends to overexpose on solar shots. I switch the camera to shutter mode and focus myself. Most of the time I use a computer to look at a larger image of what the camera is photographing and focusing is a lot easier. However, I didn’t have time to hook the computer up this go around. I think if it wasn’t for those sunspots my focus would have been much worse. That grouping was huge. I think it’s the largest group of sunspots I have ever seen. Dave On Oct 23, 2014, at 19:20, Joe Bauman via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Very nice, Dave. I saw it through the clouds for a few minutes using solar glassrd and that sunspot cluster was so huge that I actually saw it without magnification. I could barely believe its size and thought for a moment that maybe an especially dense clump of clouds had got in the way.
------------------------------ On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 7:12 PM MDT Richard Tenney via Utah-Astronomy wrote:
Very nice Dave -- thanks for posting these From: Dave Gary <davegary@me.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com>; Dallas Christensen <christensen.dallas@hotmail.com>; Dennis McClure <mccluredp@aol.com>; Bryan Holt <bryan.holt@imail.org>; Brant Pollock <brantpollock@hotmail.com> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 6:59 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Partial Solar Eclipse-10/23/2014
Here’s some quick and dirty photos of the partial eclipse from the driveway observatory in St. George. Pretty cloudy. In the last couple of photos the roof line of my house is obscuring Sun. Roof line is at top of photo. The telescope reversed up and down and right and left, I believe. Obviously, it reversed up and down. I was too lazy to edit the orientation in iPhoto. Such is life. I think the clouds add a nice touch. I started a little late into the eclipse and my roof obscured the final minutes. I caught totality for my location, though.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/78046474@N06/sets/72157648874839856/
Dave
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