23 Oct 2014 Solar Eclipse!

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23 Oct 2014 Solar Eclipse!

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Exhausted after a wonderful afternoon. Sky was mostly good, lots of work to make an animation. Here's one that gives you an idea of the views - I had to change cameras when battery died, and focus was not so good as earlier ones, but not too shabby ;)
This was after the max here - we only got to 35% or a bit more.
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MOVIE HERE: http://www.astrohawk.com/astrohawk/othe ... e/test.mov

Enjoy, will get something more up with a few days, including some Ha.
Here's an Ha I shot using eyepiece projection - just held my iPhone up to the eyepiece and tried to hold steady - surprising decent!
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And the public ourtreach and location -
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Hi Robert

wonderful shots and report of the event


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Excellent - I do like partials!


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OK, my first attempt at a movie, I hope to improve it later (unless someone wants to edit this and keep sun centered.)
I colorized and rotated to make N up (although some are oddly rotated, maybe I did it twice, it's late, and been a long day)

get it here:
http://www.astrohawk.com/astrohawk/othe ... eVideo.mp4
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Robert, love the images. they give a wholly different perspective to our usual view of the sun. I have seen 2 eclipses and they have a very eerie feel and your images capture something of that feeling.
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Well done


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Wonderful movie :bow :bow :bow how lucky to witness such an event and great you shared it with so many others :hamster: :hamster: :hamster:

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nice shots Robert uk gets one on the 20th march 2015 hope its not cloudy :movie


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thanks so much everyone! I updated the link and made the movie better (more hours spent!) - less bounce, etc
It's been a learning process!!!
Hope it is enjoyed more by you, it's much smoother, although I didn't fix the color to optimize the last 1/3 with the different camera.

Here's the link:
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Post by jp-brahic »

nice shots Robert :)

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hello Robert
Great work and a lot of finesse to this big sunspot! Congratulations and thank you to show us the eclipse!


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Thanks everyone! IT's been a wonderful experience. And now I know how to easily do Solar animations over days with what I developed in photoshop, I can't wait to start making a month long rotation animation


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