Spent the entire transit with my wife at the local Primary School after teeing it up a month or two ago with my daughters teacher.
Setup an ED80 on a HEQ5, initially planned to use a simple film filter until the glass filter from Seymour Solar in the States arrived yesterday (five days to ship, very impressed)!
Had a 2x Televue Powemate into a Canon 40D, and straight into the laptop using the Live View function of EOS Utilities. Captured still images every 15 minutes which were then launched onto an internal website to allow the kids to monitor from their classrooms. Also had PST setup on a camera tripod for teachers to view through (just a little difficult to co-ordinate kids with that).
Magnificent weather with not a cloud in the sky until around 11:30, lost about an hour with cloud then clear for the last contacts.
Around 600 kids went past the setup whilst the Live View was in action, most of whom wouldn't believe what they were seeing was live until we blocked the front end of the scope to show it was indeed live.
Fantastic day, heaps of very excited kids heading home to demand telescopes
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