From: Mark Gaffney <markgaffney@me.com>

Date: January 25, 2010 5:51:22 PM MST

To: astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: first attempts at the sun...

Hi Everybody, I did get out to image the sun at around 8 am this morning..Whilst I`m seeing one small sunspot in the middle of the sun with the 25mm eyepiece, I wasn`t able to pick it up on camera. I was sweeping back & forth trying to locate anything.. & altering the focus (I assume the idea is to get best definition of the limb) & exposure settings.. None of my movies are in the centre..even had I been able to locate a spot & it`s early days yet ..It`s terribly hot here even early in the morning & I was soon sweating profusely! Also there were endless march flies (they`re big flies with nasty stings if you don`t swat them..!) to contend with whilst negotiating the gear...Here`s a shot with the Flea 2 & Mogg 0.3 reducer,,,

Mark.