Thanks Patrick, but it's not EPOD quality. It's just a single frame grabbed from a video sequence so the resolution is low and it's been over-enlarged to the point of blurriness. I just liked it because of the birds. The movement of the birds between frames and the movement of the smoke itself precludes stacking, unfortunately. Which is a shame because several large sunspots were easily visible. The largest group bordered on filtered naked-eye resolution. The only reason I even got it uploaded from the camera and posted yesterday was because when I got home from work I was so beat that I crashed on the couch and napped for an hour. That restored my energy a bit and gave me the wherewithall to pull out the camera (mounted on an 80mm f/5 refractor) and shoot the setting sun. I've got some dedicated stills that I'll be going through hopefully this weekend. They should be much sharper, and include some foreground objects to give the shot a better feel of the smokey sun experience. I hand-held for everything because I didn't have the time or energy to set up a mount. More ash on the driveway this morning. I left a cloudy wake in the street as I drove off to work. On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com>wrote:
Impressive shot chuck. Maybe you should submit it to EPOD.