Hi IceinSpace Community,
Here's my contribution to the awesome collection of photos & videos of 2012 ToV - the last one of this century. I consider myself very lucky to have witnessed this event. I had missed the 2004 one.
In Color -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/myshutterworld/7380708070
In B&W -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/myshutterworld/7380773608
This video is made up of approx 670 images captured over a period of 6 hours.
The images were captured using Canon 400D with a telephoto zoom lens fitted with a DIY Solar Filter ( 1x Pringles chips & 1x Thousand Oaks RG Solar Film Sheet) from Brisbane, Queensland.
The zoom lens was set to 300m and each image was captured at F/11 with an exposure of 1/250sec on IOS-100.
I certainly did not want to crop each and every image manually so luckily a community member (
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4497231 --> Thank you so so much, c.pfaffenbichler) from Adobe Forums came to my rescue. A total save from the sheer frustration of going through each individual image and cropping them perfectly.
I'm pretty happy with my results. Gotta love astronomy !!!