Thanks Howard. The lens is the basic, 18mm-55mm Nikkor for the D40. Simple zoom, not a macro, nor is it a "VR" lens. Mat -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Howard Jackman Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 11:12 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Solar image Great image Mat! Just a quick question for clarification of your technique you said you handheld your D40 to the eyepiece, the meta data says that you used a 32mm focal length so I'm assuming you were using a zoom lens? was it a Macro lens by chance or a regular telephoto? Thanks! Howard This message and any attachments are solely for the use of intended recipients. The information contained herein may include trade secrets, protected health or personal information, privileged or otherwise confidential information. Unauthorized review, forwarding, printing, copying, distributing, or using such information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you received this email in error, and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this email and any attachment is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender and delete the message and any attachment from your system. Thank you for your cooperation

Howard, be sure to give afocal imaging a try with your D7000. It might take some practice especially if you hand hold the camera. I was really lucky as that shot was the second one of the session and it was the best. I was hoping to take the image through my 22mm TV Panoptic, but the eye relief caused too much vignetting in the camera, so I switched to the 25mm Plossl which has very long eye relief. If you have a mount, or can rig one, that holds the camera right on the eyepiece it would be a great help. It was fairly complicated for me to hand hold and get everything lined up and not bump the scope at the same time. But when I saw the image on the camera's LCD, I knew it was a good one! Mat P.S. Do I see people making camera mounts for afocal imaging in the next ATM session?? -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Howard Jackman Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 11:35 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Solar image Thanks Mat! I'll have to try this during the week, I generally only shoot solar images at prime focus, I haven't tried afocal with my D7000. I'm trying to nail down my shooting process for the eclipse next week, I'm not sure if I want to use the telescope or just go wider with the 70-300mm, I might end up using both depending on the location I choose to shoot from. (meaning if it's easy to get the telescope set up there) --- On Wed, 5/9/12, Hutchings, Mat (H USA) <mat.hutchings@siemens.com> wrote:

From: Hutchings, Mat (H USA) <mat.hutchings@siemens.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Solar image To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 9:25 AM Thanks Howard.

The lens is the basic, 18mm-55mm Nikkor for the D40. Simple zoom, not a macro, nor is it a "VR" lens.

Mat

-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Howard Jackman Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 11:12 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Solar image

Great image Mat!

Just a quick question for clarification of your technique you said you handheld your D40 to the eyepiece, the meta data says that you used a 32mm focal length so I'm assuming you were using a zoom lens? was it a Macro lens by chance or a regular telephoto?

Thanks! Howard

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