Topical, what with the smoke over much of SE Australia. Couple of images below, taken afocally with hand-held Kodak CX7330 digital camera through 12x50 binoculars, from my backyard in Bright, Vic. Crude and very difficult shooting method - very wobbly & hard to get focus. Anyway, the first is the classic "Bushfire Moon", the eerie red orb seen through the smoke, 3 Dec 2006. This pic (pretty ordinary) is true colour, and has had no post-processing. The second, taken yesterday, is the Sun imaged with no filters at all (never ever use this shooting method in normal atmospheric conditions or you'll burn up your gear!). Made a slight exposure compensation adjustment (-1.0) so the sky is a bit darker than it actually was, but the pink of the Sun is fairly true - note large sunspot near top.
My very first post, so I've got no idea how the thumbnails work, or whether the images I've selected have actually been attached - bombard me with advice if I've mucked it up!!!!
Still managed to muck up the posting though - sun image attached as file. It looks like lots of forum browsers have missed it, so have attached it here (I hope!). Fluoro pink sun? You'd better believe it!
to the IIS team too. I'm sure you'll enjoy the company.
