Piker. I set Revenge on the PVR, put on a down jacket, freezer pants and steelcap boots and watched the whole thing while hand tracking with the photo tripod. Maximum eclipse image here.
Here’s my effort from tonight; I dodged a few clouds and grabbed this with the Vixen ED102S, Canon 40D and Canon x1.4 Extender II. (The ED102S is an old 4inch F9 ED doublet circa 1996).
The opening scenes were hampered by clouds and trees. This was taken around 9:30pm (AEST) just before the clouds rolled in again, thus bringing down the final curtain on this fascinating event.
Manual Mode, ISO100, 1/80 sec, Remote Live View for focus.
Auckland had high haze rolling through but managed about 50 frames in RAW and jpeg samples from about 9:45 to 11:40 when the real cloud came on through. Judging by the jpegs detail is very wishy washy but RAW might give more I'll poke some through Registax tonight ( bed at midnight last night !! ) and see how they look. Post anything up that looks reasonable later.
On the high side though. Skyslab is now fully commissioned and operational. Very pleased with the setup now. Alignment needs some tweaking and guiding is still not going but swing roof and covered computer area are excellent and lighting all works. Just enough room to get around the scope and it keeps the cold draughts out. The real benefit as others have said is at shutdown, no stuff to put away or dismantle and alignment is maintained for next session.
Ouch !! , check Icemans feed on face book , sorry bout the weather .
