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by solarchat
Sun Dec 25, 2011 9:23 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: iSolar
Replies: 11
Views: 1424

Re: iSolar

I love this! I want to help!
by solarchat
Sun Dec 25, 2011 6:09 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: My wife thinks this is hilarious
Replies: 15
Views: 1199

Re: My wife thinks this is hilarious

Funny...

now Im off to work the big Jets for ten hours of holiday pay. See you guys...


(Thank you Mark....) wish you were on Facebook to see what a big deal I made of you. :)
by solarchat
Sun Dec 25, 2011 3:12 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Does anyone need anything?
Replies: 4
Views: 706

Does anyone need anything?

Its Christmas morning and I want to make sure all of our CBSAP club members have everything they need. I have sent boxes of glasses to everyone who has joined up and you all should have some lanyards, stickers, brochures and stuff to use in your solar outreach events. Remember, its no big deal, if y...
by solarchat
Sun Dec 25, 2011 2:47 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: My wife thinks this is hilarious
Replies: 15
Views: 1199

My wife thinks this is hilarious

Merry Christmas from the Ramsden's in Atlanta

by solarchat
Sat Dec 24, 2011 2:12 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: I am honored
Replies: 5
Views: 757

Re: I am honored

Thanks Bill!1 Looks like I have a volunteer to man the booth at NEAF this year once in a while so I can get a break!

Im blushing at your note and thank you Alan Traino really has an eye for putting people together in this hobby...
by solarchat
Sat Dec 24, 2011 1:57 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Year End Best Wishes
Replies: 5
Views: 778

Re: Year End Best Wishes

Hey man! You ought to be on this end if you wanna feel blessed! Im not a religious man but I can tell ya that every day I wake up breathing after the various situations in the military and in my somewhat risky youth :) I feel like a new man. I have come to find that giving away stuff and helping oth...
by solarchat
Fri Dec 23, 2011 4:18 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: 2012 Solar Presentation now online
Replies: 11
Views: 1141

Re: 2012 Solar Presentation now online

OK,

Try the link again

Big 2012 Solar Presentation


It is now in Adobe Flash 11.0 or up format
by solarchat
Fri Dec 23, 2011 3:37 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: 2012 Solar Presentation now online
Replies: 11
Views: 1141

Re: 2012 Solar Presentation now online

It is in H.264 format as a .mov file. it was too l;ong for youtube. I will make it a FLV asnd a compressed .mov in a moent. It was made for the online astronomy society in the UK so Alastair will probably be able to make it work better for the internet. Stay tuned.
by solarchat
Fri Dec 23, 2011 3:33 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Sungazer picture
Replies: 1
Views: 604

Re: Sungazer picture

Greg is a board member of the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project and I know he would be thrilled that you thought enough of him to use his work.
by solarchat
Fri Dec 23, 2011 3:29 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Welcome Tommy Judson New Member
Replies: 8
Views: 1233

Welcome Tommy Judson New Member

I dont know Tommy, but I like 'em./

He's from Texas too.
by solarchat
Thu Dec 22, 2011 6:04 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: 2012 Solar Presentation now online
Replies: 11
Views: 1141

Re: 2012 Solar Presentation now online

patience Walter, patience... double click it if you cant get it too start after a minute or two...

of course if you dont have the quicktime viewer, it will never load
by solarchat
Thu Dec 22, 2011 5:24 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: 2012 Solar Presentation now online
Replies: 11
Views: 1141

2012 Solar Presentation now online

Big 2012 Solar Presentation


Use it any way you want guys. its not rocket science, just an intro to solar radiation designed to be informative and entertaining...
by solarchat
Thu Dec 22, 2011 1:35 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Our Star on December 21, 2011
Replies: 4
Views: 740

Re: Our Star on December 21, 2011

fantastic images. Love the color choices and the focus is right on. Good job!
by solarchat
Thu Dec 22, 2011 1:01 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Astronomy Night or Day Is The Same
Replies: 15
Views: 1436

Re: Astronomy Night or Day Is The Same

Mark,

According to space weather you guys in the UK should be covered in auroras at night now. Do you ever see them?
by solarchat
Thu Dec 22, 2011 12:54 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Greyscale Sun MKII
Replies: 13
Views: 1214

Re: Greyscale Sun MKII

Truly inspiring Derek. Just great depth and dimension to these images. This really is what I am looking for in my solar appreciation. Its the different interpretations of the imager that really gets me going. Bravo!
by solarchat
Thu Dec 22, 2011 3:05 am
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Greg Piepol wins the AstroOscar!!
Replies: 9
Views: 1247

Greg Piepol wins the AstroOscar!!




CBSAP board member and my mentor Greg Piepol won the 2011 AstroOscar for his awesome work in outreach! Congrats Greg!
by solarchat
Wed Dec 21, 2011 5:26 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Canon 7D shots
Replies: 12
Views: 1584

Re: Canon 7D shots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=&feature=youtu.be

[video width=425 height=344 type=youtube]1gIBl8XE2hs[/video]
by solarchat
Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:44 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Astronomy Night or Day Is The Same
Replies: 15
Views: 1436

Re: Astronomy Night or Day Is The Same

The clouds will clear brotha'
by solarchat
Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:41 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Welcome Emiel Veldhuis and Earl Foster as new members!!
Replies: 11
Views: 1330

Welcome Emiel Veldhuis and Earl Foster as new members!!

Emiel runs SolarLive from the Netherlands (www.solarlive.nu) and is already very popular in the solar community. Here is my favorite picture of him...from facebook: he's in great shape, huh? (not really him) Earl runs My Solar Images dotCom and is in Garland Texas. Dont mess with Texas...:) Welcome ...
by solarchat
Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:35 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Dec 19th Solar Photos
Replies: 10
Views: 1323

Re: Dec 19th Solar Photos

My wife says Im a cornucopia of something else Chris...

Thanks guys. You should have seen the look on that girls face...:)
by solarchat
Wed Dec 21, 2011 1:31 am
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Dec 19th Solar Photos
Replies: 10
Views: 1323

Dec 19th Solar Photos

FULL RESOLUTION GALLERY WITH TONS OF IMAGES AND MOVIES

























[video width=425 height=344 type=youtube]CyUm4-BcC10[/video]

[video width=600 height=400 type=youtube]UU3Z_K-M-nI[/video]

Hopewell Middle School Dec 19th
by solarchat
Tue Dec 20, 2011 11:44 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Sun Today
Replies: 11
Views: 1276

Re: Sun Today

so, your shooting in inverted mode. Cool! ASTRO IIDC also does this with the PGR cameras. They just added a colorized preview feature as well...

Here is a kid using it this week at an event.


by solarchat
Tue Dec 20, 2011 11:34 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: This is just cool man
Replies: 8
Views: 1071

Re: This is just cool man

by the way this is shot with the DMK51. 400 frames then opened and resaved as 1200 frames with avidub. then exported as an image sequence using QT Pro. THEN each frame was colorized using Canon DPP software, then remade into another .mov using QT Pro. way too long a process...
by solarchat
Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:05 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: This is just cool man
Replies: 8
Views: 1071

Re: This is just cool man

[video width=600 height=600 type=youtube]CyUm4-BcC10[/video]

click the resolution box to change it to 720dpi
by solarchat
Tue Dec 20, 2011 5:11 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: This is just cool man
Replies: 8
Views: 1071

This is just cool man

lil 6th grader "Meaghan" shoot this video through my Lunt B1200 CaK yesterday at an event. Now she wants to be a solar astronomer... You should have seen her face.:) Now Im motivated even more...






more to come including a movie of this transit and full res images
by solarchat
Tue Dec 20, 2011 1:50 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Sun Today
Replies: 11
Views: 1276

Re: Sun Today

That last color one with the prominences is really superb. Such details!
by solarchat
Tue Dec 20, 2011 1:49 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: SUN 20111217/18
Replies: 9
Views: 1065

Re: SUN 20111217/18

Pedro,

We are so lucky to have you post your mages here. They are an inspiration! Thank you..:)
by solarchat
Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:46 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Solar beetle / dust mite
Replies: 8
Views: 1001

Re: Solar beetle / dust mite

Im going with squid
by solarchat
Mon Dec 19, 2011 4:51 am
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: spammers finally stopped
Replies: 4
Views: 691

Re: spammers finally stopped

I dont think any of them are people. I send a "friendly" email to each address anyway with a little encouragement to stay away from the federal government. Did I mention that I work for homeland security indirectly?
by solarchat
Mon Dec 19, 2011 4:50 am
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Ha sun 18th Dec
Replies: 12
Views: 1288

Re: Ha sun 18th Dec

Beautiful work Alexandra! now, why did you deel the need to buy a 100mm filter with images like these through a PST? :blush:
by solarchat
Mon Dec 19, 2011 4:49 am
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Canon 7D shots
Replies: 12
Views: 1584

Re: Canon 7D shots

I use the 40D for time lapses and the 7D for stills and astro imaging. I just went and bought totally based on the reputation. At the time, I had $3000.00 to spend and I asked for the best Canon camera I could get and the 7D was it.
by solarchat
Mon Dec 19, 2011 4:47 am
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Liability Insurance
Replies: 10
Views: 1178

Re: Liability Insurance

Well, The topic has come up with my attorney. I supposedly have imsurnace through the NASA Solar System Ambassadors Program but I hope I never have to use it. I attempted to buy a policy from several vendors in 2009 but found no one interested in selling it to me. I am just very careful but i guess ...
by solarchat
Sun Dec 18, 2011 3:38 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Canon 7D shots
Replies: 12
Views: 1584

Re: Canon 7D shots

Funny ASlexandra...:) Strangely, even in the military I hardly ever drank.. I might have had 3 glasses of wine and maybe a six pack of beer my entire life and none in the last 25 years. Seen too many friends die from alcohol related stupidity...(including Charlie bates) though I am definitely a Coff...
by solarchat
Sun Dec 18, 2011 3:28 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Canon 7D shots
Replies: 12
Views: 1584

Canon 7D shots

I got out a new type of DSLR setup and used it yesterday at work to film a movie of the awesome detached prom and several stills. I was using a different white balance which really made it look good through the DSLR. I even filmed a 3 minute video describing the technique. Of course, I lost the 32GB...
by solarchat
Sun Dec 18, 2011 3:24 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: spammers finally stopped
Replies: 4
Views: 691

spammers finally stopped

Well, I changed the account verification to the very incomvenient setting of "me having to individually approve them" and now there are no spammers getting on board. This is a list of the nuts who have tried to gain access in the last 24 hours. Amazing that people waste so much of their ti...
by solarchat
Sat Dec 17, 2011 1:41 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: First Outreach Event
Replies: 9
Views: 1207

Re: First Outreach Event

by the way, this event occured before the SUNSPOT van when I used to drive my Nissan Titan around. man was it a gas hog...
by solarchat
Sat Dec 17, 2011 1:40 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: First Outreach Event
Replies: 9
Views: 1207

Re: First Outreach Event

Ya Scott! :) Scott is my good friend and neighbor here in Atlanta and the winner of last years Jon Wood award. The program gave him a Meade LXD75 mount and a Meade AR6 refractor. We are hoping to do the outreach event together next Wednesday weather permitting. He is my internet and software guru an...
by solarchat
Sat Dec 17, 2011 1:33 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Thanks Jan Romer and Chuck Thornton for your generous support..
Replies: 1
Views: 550

Thanks Jan Romer and Chuck Thornton for your generous support..

The title says it all. I do not want this to be a forum for requesting donations so it wont be but I do feel the need to thank people for their support in these not so great economic times... Thanks Jan, Chuck, Bill, Walter, Mark, Alan, Dan, heck, all of you know who you are and dont so it for recop...
by solarchat
Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:54 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Bird Poo
Replies: 14
Views: 1527

Re: Bird Poo

This topic is really "for the birds"
by solarchat
Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:10 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Dont Know Why...sorry
Replies: 13
Views: 1321

Re: Dont Know Why...sorry

Hey Walter. I hate talking money my friend. I don't know yet what it will cost but it's always something with the charity. I put about $ 3000.00 a month into some type of outreach expense on average. Don't worry about it, I never do. What comes around, goes around and it usually takes care of itself...
by solarchat
Fri Dec 16, 2011 6:28 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Dont Know Why...sorry
Replies: 13
Views: 1321

Re: Dont Know Why...sorry

by the way, it only triggered the glitch when annular was in the topic title. Feel free to post it again without that word in the title:)
by solarchat
Fri Dec 16, 2011 6:26 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Dont Know Why...sorry
Replies: 13
Views: 1321

Re: Dont Know Why...sorry

all the topics were removed. Robert should have gotten your reply via email.
by solarchat
Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:13 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Dont Know Why...sorry
Replies: 13
Views: 1321

Re: Dont Know Why...sorry

Yes, The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (www.natca.org) is my Union for the last 24 years and they have been fantastic supporters of my outreach program from day one. Funny, the companies and organizations that benefit the most from this program, other than Lunt Solar Systems, have nev...
by solarchat
Fri Dec 16, 2011 3:59 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Comet Lovejoy from JHelioviewer
Replies: 0
Views: 851

Comet Lovejoy from JHelioviewer

If you want to make your own video of Comet Lovejoy and lil' Amy like this one I did...

[video width=600 height=400 type=youtube]gaPeiLrL2RY[/video]

Then just download the free JHelioviewer software (PC or MAC) at this link:


J Helioviewer FreeWare
by solarchat
Fri Dec 16, 2011 3:45 pm
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: Dont Know Why...sorry
Replies: 13
Views: 1321

Dont Know Why...sorry

Apparantly typing the word An*u*l*a*r has triggered some sort of Web Knight Application firewall warning on the NATCA host site that I use. Dont know why but I am investigating... Leave it to a bunch of nerds like us to find some crack in the armor that causes a problem. Anyway, please do not type t...
by solarchat
Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:54 am
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: AR1366
Replies: 5
Views: 652

Re: AR1366

AR stands for Active Region and it is just a numbered designator for activity on the Sun...
by solarchat
Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:53 am
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: MASSIVE COMET GRAZES SUN!!!
Replies: 5
Views: 775

Re: MASSIVE COMET GRAZES SUN!!!

by solarchat
Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:51 am
Forum: This is SolarChat !!
Topic: MASSIVE COMET GRAZES SUN!!!
Replies: 5
Views: 775

MASSIVE COMET GRAZES SUN!!!

OF COURSE IT WAS OVERCAST HERE IN ATLANTA BUT HERE IS THE FIRST VIDEOS FROM SDO OF COMET LOVEJOY GRAZING THE SUN!!!

[video width=600 height=400 type=youtube]eyo7bE0Mrto[/video]