What can I say that hasn't already been said... You have the touch of King Midas in that everything you do is pure gold.
Is there any chance you can come to the BAS meeting on the 8th July? We would love to see these at the meeting from a BAS old-boy. i will have some from the eclipse there and I would like to listen to your thoughts on the eclipse and the ISS transit.
Cheers
Tony
Hi Tony
Hmm, not sure if it’s the Midas touch or just a bit of luck and a few sucker holes!
Thanks for the invite to the BAS meeting, I’d be delighted to come along and give a short talk on how the image was planned, recorded and processed. It would be great to catch up with the regulars as I’ve been somewhat of a recluse these last few years!
I told the committee that you are coming next Friday to do a short talk, and everyone is stoked and keen to see your presentation (So no backing out now!)
What did I say about "Gold" Dennis
I told the committee that you are coming next Friday to do a short talk, and everyone is stoked and keen to see your presentation (So no backing out now!)
Cheers
Tony
Okay Tony. My events manager will speak with your agent to discuss my appearance fees and other requirements.
I insist on my own dressing room, bottles of special Kabbalah water, rose petals in the toilet, peach coloured toilet tissue, gold faucets, coffee must be stirred counter clockwise, a Takahashi TOA150 and a stretched limo to pick me up.
Well, after almost missing recording the ISS transit due to some confusion about how the Movie shooting switch operates on the Canon 7D, I finally managed to run a quick test today.
As you can see from the scan from the 7D Manual:
Step 1 indicates that the reflex mirror will flip up when the Live View shooting/Movie shooting switch is switched to the Movie shooting position.
Step 3 indicates that the (first) press of the START/STOP button will then begin the recording.
My experience was as follows:
Step 1 – setting the Live View shooting/Movie shooting switch to the Movie shooting position did NOT cause the reflex mirror will flip up.
The first press of the START/STOP button caused the reflex mirror will flip up.
The second press of the START/STOP button then began the recording.
What gave the game away is that:
After the first press of the START/STOP button, the red LED “access lamp” at the rear of the camera did NOT “blink” to indicate that data was being written to the CF Card.
The second press of the START/STOP button then caused the “access lamp” to blink thus capturing the transit of the ISS across the face of the Sun.
It would appear that the Canon Manual describes the correct behaviour with a camera lens fitted whereas the behaviour when fitted to a telescope is how I experienced it, as the telescope does not communicate with the 7D body.
This morning, Mike forwarded me a request that he received in the Ice In Space mailbox, from a Space Shuttle astronaut asking for a copy of my photo of the ISS transiting the Sun.
I have sent a full res jpg to the STS-51F astronaut, just to let him see the resolution of the image (1920x1080) as I am not sure if he would like to print it. Having lived through, and been enthralled and inspired by the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Soyuz, Skylab, Spacelab and now International Space Station missions, it was very exciting to be contacted by one of the few people that had flown on one of these missions.
This morning, Mike forwarded me a request that he received in the Ice In Space mailbox, from a Space Shuttle astronaut asking for a copy of my photo of the ISS transiting the Sun.
I have sent a full res jpg to the STS-51F astronaut, just to let him see the resolution of the image (1920x1080) as I am not sure if he would like to print it. Having lived through, and been enthralled and inspired by the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Soyuz, Skylab, Spacelab and now International Space Station missions, it was very exciting to be contacted by one of the few people that had flown on one of these missions.
