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Old 08-03-2008, 12:05 PM
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Not exactly the greatest experience, here in North-East England.

Woke to quite thick clouds, and by the time it got to 'first-contact' for my location, there was still no break.
So, because I was intending to image the whole sequence, and that was now ruined, I put the imaging gear away, and only kept a small-ish scope, and a pair of binocs on standby.
(I was originally planning to image with a ED100 on motorised-tracking EQ mount, and a borrowed DSLR)

Then miraculously, just before maximum coverage, the clouds started to break up, and I got to watch (on and off) for about half an hour.
I did manage to get a few pics, but they were simply done with a mobile phone (cell) Hand-held up to the eyepiece, of a 90mm Maksutov, at 50x (25mm plossl eyepiece), with Baader Astrosolar 5.0 white-light filter, and a pale orange filter on the eyepiece to give a slightly more natural colour.

This is the little scope I ended up viewing through


Eclipse pics - very basic - mobile phone, hand-held at the eyepiece
Max coverage from my location (about 30%)


Just before the clouds closed in again

Last edited by Carlos_dfc; 09-08-2008 at 02:18 PM.
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