[pasmembers] Re: Review for newsletter of Venus Transit event

  • From: Tim Jones <timj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pasmembers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 07:47:19 -0700

Because Bob and I were stuck in the office for the start of the transit, we set up our rigs in our office parking lot.  Bob used his finder scope on the bino tripod while I set up my entire 90mm rig.  We were both using Baader Solar film that Bob used to create covers for the ends of the scopes.  While it took me a bit longer to get things ready, we did catch first contact in Bob's newly devised "grab and Go".  

We shared the views with others from the 2 office buildings and I even had 2 drive-ups where folks saw me and decided to stop and ask if they could look.  One gentleman who was retired from NASA ARC said it was the best visual view of the Sun that he had ever seen.  I then swapped out between my eyepiece and my EOS T1i and got to see the early portion of the transit visually and captured it with the camera.

I posted this yesterday, but here's one of the shots I took around 45 minutes in.

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