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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-21-2018, 06:06 AM
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Thanks for your comments!
The one that looks like the moon is actually the SUN! It was near solar minimum during last year's eclipse and I had had clouds for 20 or 30 minutes and was checking every once in a while to see if it was clearing. I saw this very dim sliver through the clouds and took a chance with my k-50 and snapped a shot of it. I used the electronic viewfinder just in case it popped out brighter, and can't recommend the practice of aiming things at the sun unfiltered. I also had a tracking mount with filtered cameras but this one was the most exciting.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-21-2018, 06:00 AM
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Thanks for your comments!
The one that looks like the moon is actually the SUN! It was near solar minimum during last year's eclipse and I had had clouds for 20 or 30 minutes and was checking every once in a while to see if it was clearing. I saw this very dim sliver through the clouds and took a chance with my k-50 and snapped a shot of it. I used the electronic viewfinder just in case it popped out brighter, and can't recommend the practice of aiming things at the sun unfiltered. I also had a tracking mount with filtered cameras but this one was the most exciting.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-08-2018, 05:07 AM
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Just looking to make conversation to help boost posting.
Pay no attention to the typo...you see nothing...nothing!
Last fall I was setting up and getting polar aligned the night before the August 2017 eclipse to get what pictures I could of the solar eclipse after canceling a long drive into the shadow on a Monday, and all that that might entail when the normally soupy summer sky decided to reward me with a moment of complete clarity showing me a naked eye view of the milkyway roaring overhead. I grabbed my k-50 and quickly attached it to the tracking mount and just blindly aimed it up to get this. It only lasted long enough to get a few frames but was a highlight of the event for me. The eclipse was mostly clouded out but I did get some good solar filtered footage of the last stages and I got one or two by gambling a bit with a handheld k-50 using the viewscreen for protection as the almost completely obscured nearly eclipsed sun occasionally dimly peeked out of the clouds from a passing thunderstorm.
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