| Warming up... |
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| My first sundogs! Two sundogs are seen on either side of the sun in this image taken on an afternoon from my parkinglot in Grand Forks, North Dakota, with my Fuji s5000 dgitial camera. |
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| Sunspots! This image was taken with a Pentax Spotmatic SLR using a Kodak Gold 400 ASA negative film @ 1/125th of sec exposure through a Meade 12-inch LX200 F/10 prime focus. An off-axis Baader Solar Filter (75mm) was used to cut the light. |
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| Sunspots! This image was taken with a Pentax Spotmatic SLR using a Kodak Gold 400 ASA negative film @ 1/125th of sec exposure through a Meade 12-inch LX200 F/10 prime focus. An off-axis Baader Solar Filter (75mm) was used to cut the light. |
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| Transit of Mercury |
| Transit of Mercury as seen from New Delhi, India, on May 7th, 2003. This image was taken with a Pentax Spotmatic SLR using a Kodak Gold 400 ASA negative film @ 1/125th of sec exposure through a Meade 12-inch LX200 F/10 prime focus. An off-axis Baader Solar Filter (75mm) was used to cut the light. |
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| Transit of Mercury as seen from New Delhi, India, on May 7th, 2003. This image was taken with a Pentax Spotmatic SLR using a Kodak Gold 400 ASA negative film @ 1/125th of sec exposure through a Meade 12-inch LX200 F/10 prime focus. An off-axis Baader Solar Filter (75mm) was used to cut the light. |
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| Partial Solar Eclipse as seen from Sultanpur, Haryana, (close to New Delhi) India, on May 31th, 2003. This image was taken with a Pentax Spotmatic SLR using a Kodak Gold 400 ASA negative film @ 1/125th of sec exposure through a Meade 6-inch F/8 Dobsonian prime focus. An off-axis Baader Solar Filter (55mm) was used to cut the light. |
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| Imaging setup used for the above H-Alpha images of the sun. The telescope was a Coronado Maxscope 70 (Nearstar) H-Alpha scope mounted with a C11 on a Losmandy G-11 Eq. Mount. The instruments belong to the Visitor's Center at Mauna Kea. |
| H-Alpha images of the sun taken with my Fuji s5000 digital camera from Hale Pohaku, Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Exposure time 1/60th of sec with camera held over 8mm Nagler. The telescope was a Coronado Maxscope 70 (Nearstar) H-Alpha scope mounted with a C11 on a Losmandy G-11 Eq. Mount. The instruments belong to the Visitor's Center at Mauna Kea. |
| H-Alpha images of the sun taken with my Fuji s5000 digital camera from Hale Pohaku, Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Exposure time (above 1/80th of sec, below 1/160th of sec) with camera held over 8mm Nagler. |