From: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>
Date: June 21, 2012 11:11:28 PM MDT
To: macastronomer@yahoogroups.com, Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [macastronomer] the deep blue sea
Thanks very much for the notes, guys. When I played this video I was taken aback by how steady it was. At the time I was just happy that everything made the trip OK and was working.
I had some good seeing during the day on June 10th (the day that I shot the recently posted saturn image)… will be interesting to see how it compares.
all the best,
Alan
On Jun 22, 2012, at 12:57 AM, Richard Richins wrote:
That's freakin' gorgeous!
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On Jun 21, 2012, at 4:33 PM, Alan Friedman wrote:
Hi all,
I arrived at Mount Wilson the day before the transit of Venus. I had enough time to get everything unpacked and set up for a test run and shot two streams of video to make sure the computer and cameras were all happy and talking to each other. I forgot about these files in the excitement of June 5th. Looking back through the files while archiving the 200 gigabytes of data from my trip, the conditions on June 4th were much better than the following day… in fact, it is some of the best solar seeing I've experienced in some time. Apologies in advance for the large images, but I couldn't bear to reduce them:
http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/deepbluesea.html
and for those who prefer a non-inverted look at the solar chromosphere:
http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/deepbluesea2.html
These images are not mosaics. They show the full size field of view of the Grasshopper Express 6 megapixel chip used with the f 4.8 Stowaway and Televue 2X powermate.
Hope you enjoy them!
Alan
Alan Friedman