Not looking good for the 7th Feb Partial Solar Ec.

[citivolus (Ric)]

I was apparently over sampling my seeing. There were lots of artefacts from seeing distortion.

This shot was taken at about 15:50. It is a median stack of 7 frames to try to combat the seeing conditions. The first shot is a 100% crop, the second is scaled 50%. You can see the second is more visually pleasing, if smaller.

We needed some sunspots to spice this one up a bit!

Processing info: Canon 40D, 70-200mm f/2.8L @ 200mm f/8, 2x teleconverter, Orion solar filter, 1/800 second, ISO 400, 7 frames aligned and stacked in IP, cropped + converted to JPEG with Photoshop.

Eric

[h0ughy (David)]

rain in Newcastle - -it was a no show

[Outbackmanyep]

Originally Posted by citivolus

I was apparently over sampling my seeing. There were lots of artefacts from seeing distortion.

This shot was taken at about 15:50. It is a median stack of 7 frames to try to combat the seeing conditions. The first shot is a 100% crop, the second is scaled 50%. You can see the second is more visually pleasing, if smaller.

We needed some sunspots to spice this one up a bit!

Processing info: Canon 40D, 70-200mm f/2.8L @ 200mm f/8, 2x teleconverter, Orion solar filter, 1/800 second, ISO 400, 7 frames aligned and stacked in IP, cropped + converted to JPEG with Photoshop.

Eric

Great shots Citivolus!!! I agree with the sunspot comment, it would have aided focussing MUCH better!
I got 160 shots in! and only 3 stoppages for clouds! They move quick up here!!!!

[CoombellKid]

Nice pics Eric!

Well we had pretty good weather, amazingly enough. Watched the start
through the 20x80's then switched to the PST (and hand held the 20x80's)
I could easily see three surface filaments, several small proms in groups
around the limb. Had a patches of cloud in the beginning clearing from
about mid transit.


regards,CS

[sheeny (Al)]

Well it was a typical tease here!

I didn't expect to see anything, but I knocked off work at 4 and the sun was shining (admittedly through a big sucker hole, but the important thing was it was shining!). So I raced home (about 5 minutes), no time to set up a scope and the PST is still away... so I grabbed a cardboard box, punched a tech screw through one end to make a pinhole camera, and raced outside just in time for the the sucker hole to close up and laugh at me! Typical...

I suppose I wasn't expecting to see it so I'm not too disappointed, but I do like to look at everyone else's pics!

Al.

[space oddity]

The skies were distinctly black and rainy in Sydney. It was rather dark - was it to do with 20 % of the sun blocked?

[OneOfOne (Trevor)]

I looked outside several times around 2:30 but there was nothing but cloud. Even around 3:30 is was cloudy. I was going to knock off a little later but got caught up tracking down a sofware bug. I finally left work around 4:10 to bright sunshine! I got the "sun" glasses out and could just make out the tiniest bit of the Sun missing. Had I left when I was going to, it would have been clear as most of the cloud was gone when I did leave. So now I am kicking myself I didn't leave when I was going to as I would have seen it was clear and had a better look....