[AstroTourist (Terry)]

Thanks to everyone for your kind comments.
I will be at Qld Astrofest and look forward to meeting people there.
I have a talk scheduled for the Monday about the 2012 eclipse.
I was in the eclipse zone for 2 weeks either side of the eclipse date last year and have lots of images and info on possible viewing sites, access conditions etc. and can talk about eclipse photography. I agree there are good photo opportunities for the 2012 eclipse.

I have attached 4 more images from last weeks eclipse.
All are taken with the 76mm 480mm FL (f6.3) refractor with Canon 450D DSLR on equatorial mount seen in the lower left of the image I posted first.
Three are of a sequence taken around third contact. I especiallly like the prominence in the upper left in the first image and the start of Baily's Beads in the second and third.
The other is a composite of the corona. The composite is of 5 images with exposures from 1/500th sec at 100 ISO to 1/8th sec at 400 ISO. The corona was visually stunning with two prominent long streamers and I am really pleased that I have captured several stars, something I have not done previously.

Regards,
Terry