From: "milton_aupperle" <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: January 26, 2010 11:22:54 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: first attempts at the sun...

Mark;

1) Achieve focus on the Limb area

2) Decrease the exposure / brightness so that the disk isn't a big white blob. That's why you can't find that small sunspot, it's lost in the glare.

3) Move slowly when you sweep across the disk and pay attentions to the screen.

HTH..

Milton Aupperle

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Mark Gaffney <markgaffney@...> wrote:

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.