Here is an image I took of the eclipse today. I used a Nikon D80 at prime focus of my 8 inch f13.3 refractor. I had a 4 inch dual aluminized filter glass in front of the scope. The equivalent lens is 2700 mm f26.6 I believe the exposure was 1/400 second. The image scale wouldn't allow the entire sun in the frame, but I managed to get a good deal of detail including sunspots, and mountains on the moon. The sensor is pretty dirty, so there may be some extraneous false sunspots. I normalized the image in Photoshop and made some minor color balance adjustments. I had the scope set up in my driveway in Bountiful and had quite a few kids stop by and view both through the scope and through a #14 welder's glass. \http://s1138.photobucket.com/user/brentjwatson/media/Solar%20Eclipse/Eclipse...
Very nice. On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Brent Watson via Utah-Astronomy < utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Here is an image I took of the eclipse today. I used a Nikon D80 at prime focus of my 8 inch f13.3 refractor. I had a 4 inch dual aluminized filter glass in front of the scope. The equivalent lens is 2700 mm f26.6 I believe the exposure was 1/400 second.
The image scale wouldn't allow the entire sun in the frame, but I managed to get a good deal of detail including sunspots, and mountains on the moon. The sensor is pretty dirty, so there may be some extraneous false sunspots. I normalized the image in Photoshop and made some minor color balance adjustments.
I had the scope set up in my driveway in Bountiful and had quite a few kids stop by and view both through the scope and through a #14 welder's glass.
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wonderful image Brent! From: Brent Watson via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 6:55 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Today's eclipse Here is an image I took of the eclipse today. I used a Nikon D80 at prime focus of my 8 inch f13.3 refractor. I had a 4 inch dual aluminized filter glass in front of the scope. The equivalent lens is 2700 mm f26.6 I believe the exposure was 1/400 second. The image scale wouldn't allow the entire sun in the frame, but I managed to get a good deal of detail including sunspots, and mountains on the moon. The sensor is pretty dirty, so there may be some extraneous false sunspots. I normalized the image in Photoshop and made some minor color balance adjustments. I had the scope set up in my driveway in Bountiful and had quite a few kids stop by and view both through the scope and through a #14 welder's glass. \http://s1138.photobucket.com/user/brentjwatson/media/Solar%20Eclipse/Eclipse... _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".
Very nice, Brent. Good detail on the sunspots. I couldn’t get that much detail with the clouds obscuring the view. Dave On Oct 23, 2014, at 18:55, Brent Watson via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Here is an image I took of the eclipse today. I used a Nikon D80 at prime focus of my 8 inch f13.3 refractor. I had a 4 inch dual aluminized filter glass in front of the scope. The equivalent lens is 2700 mm f26.6 I believe the exposure was 1/400 second.
The image scale wouldn't allow the entire sun in the frame, but I managed to get a good deal of detail including sunspots, and mountains on the moon. The sensor is pretty dirty, so there may be some extraneous false sunspots. I normalized the image in Photoshop and made some minor color balance adjustments.
I had the scope set up in my driveway in Bountiful and had quite a few kids stop by and view both through the scope and through a #14 welder's glass.
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Brent Watson -
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Richard Tenney -
Siegfried Jachmann