Transit projected onto my bedroom ceiling

[pgc hunter]

Melbourne's cloud cleared for a little bit in the arvo allowing the last few minutes of the transit to be viewed.

So I grabbed my Stellarvue 60mm finder and projected the sun onto my bedroom ceiling and fired off a few shots. Not great quality, but there it is, wasn't expecting to see it with the bad forecast :)

[Becstar]

Brilliant idea and really inventive. Great pics!

[leon]

Not to shabby actually, nice effort, at least you have something for your efforts, well done.

Leon

[Shark Bait]

:lol: I showed these shots to SWMBO and she thinks that you might just be a bigger geek than me.

It sounds like she might be over the transit. :screwy:

I like your take on imaging the transit. :thumbsup:

[ZeroID]

Well I'll be :eyepop:..... and with luminous moon and stars ..
Sleeping in a big camera obscura, too cool.
You are hereby elevated to super geek status... :thumbsup:

Well done, very inventive. Must try that in our lounge for sunspots.

[jjjnettie]

:lol: You Geek.

But i love it. Very imaginative.

[goober]

Super cool, Sab. I was out there with my much neglected scope and a solar filter. Took some shots with a hand held iphone at the eyepiece that turned out okay (for me...).

[DavidU]

Very kewl Sab ! , the moon came out well too LOL

[silv]

LOL, David, was going to write st like that, myself.
Soo funny - the whole serious science excitement put on a children's room ceiling. :D Very unique!!! The only truly funny picture. LOL :D

[Liz]

Wow, well done Sab, so much detail for a projection ... in the bedroom. You are seeing nearly as much as us with our scope :thumbsup:

[spacezebra]

How cool is that Sab!!!!!!!!!

Brilliant capture.

Cheers Petra d.

[pgc hunter]

hahaha yeah the image was actually surprising good considering I was using a finder scope at not more than perhaps 10x :D Although if I had more brain matter, it probably would've occured to me to use my 114mm newt which lives on a tripod rather than jury rig a platform for a finder out of assorted issues of S&T! Derp. I was just able to catch egress as the bloody batteries in the camera were dying (as they do during the one time something cool happens). One day, I hope to cover the entire room and everything in it with glow in the dark stars :lol:

What's amazing is that the day of the transit was the only one in the last week or so where the overcast actually broke up for a little while. Before or since, not one second of sunshine !

[silv]

and you spent it indoors :rofl: