Transit of Venus

[Rick Rubio]

I'd bring my telescope with solar filter to the Makery, but it would be difficult getting it on the roof. I'll be hanging out at Gallagher Park (54th& NW Radial) with it, if anyone wants to stop by. Here's a photo I took with a small point & shoot a few years ago of a Mercury transit. Venus will appear much larger. The small dot the left is Mercury, what appears on the right is a sun spot.

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On Jun 5, 2012, at 8:51 AM, patrick <patrick...@gmail.com> wrote:

> UNO is having something at their planetarium and my friend will be there with his solar telescope. I will be on the makery roof trying to take a picture of it while not going blind. Feel free to join me. ill proly be on the roof around 5ish. You can get there through the conference room windows upstairs.

[Travis Smith]

Rick, you've got the chops!  That's a nice shot.


Travis

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[Dan Linder]

Seconded!  Hope you post your Venus photos, too.

[Stephanie Jensen]

Thirded.  

[Travis Smith]

Rick,

 

I'll try to show up around 6:30 at the park.  Guess that means I'll be late to the meeting...

Travis

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Rick Rubio <rick...@me.com> wrote:

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[David Knaack]

What meeting?

[Kevin Fusselman]

No meeting tonight.  Eric had sent a correction out a week or so ago, because the schedule proposed back in May would have screwed up our permanent meeting schedule next fall, when we go back to bi-weekly meetings.

Rather than switching to the first Tuesday (as proposed), we'll only be doing "every other, other Tuesday" as formal meetings.  Meeting dates for June, July and August are: 
6/12, 7/10, and 8/7 , as always, 7pm at the Makery.

Other than that, we'll still be doing alternating Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Sorry for the mixup!

[Rick Rubio]

It's started and I'm getting a pretty good decent view.  Feel free to stop by.

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[Travis Smith]

On the way!

Travis

[Rick Rubio]

I took over 200 shots of the transit, and I still have to go through them to find the best shots, but I think that this is the coolest. A jet flew across the image of the Sun while I was taking this shot of the transit.

[David Knaack]

Great shot!

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Rick Rubio <rick...@me.com> wrote:

I took over 200 shots of the transit, and I still have to go through them to find the best shots, but I think that this is the coolest.  A jet flew across the image of the Sun while I was taking this shot of the transit.

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[Travis Smith]

Ha! Cool. :)

-Travis

On Jun 5, 2012, at 20:55, Rick Rubio <rick...@me.com> wrote:

> I took over 200 shots of the transit, and I still have to go through them to find the best shots, but I think that this is the coolest. A jet flew across the image of the Sun while I was taking this shot of the transit.
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[Kevin Fusselman]

That's very nice. 

[Stephanie Jensen]

Best ever!

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Rick Rubio <rick...@me.com> wrote:

I took over 200 shots of the transit, and I still have to go through them to find the best shots, but I think that this is the coolest.  A jet flew across the image of the Sun while I was taking this shot of the transit.

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[Dave Thacker]

That is a beautiful shot!  Well done! 

Dave

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Rick Rubio <rick...@me.com> wrote:

I took over 200 shots of the transit, and I still have to go through them to find the best shots, but I think that this is the coolest.  A jet flew across the image of the Sun while I was taking this shot of the transit.

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[Dan Linder]

Rick,

I and a co-worker are interested in the setup you ended up using.
Mind replying with a brief description?

Great photo by the way!

Thanks,
Dan

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[patrick]

I took about 30-40 shots but i had a high success rate once i knew what to do. Ill post them later this afternoon.

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[Rick Rubio]

I used my Orion SkyQuest XT8, which is a Dobsonion style telescope. They're relatively inexpensive. Mine was about $350.00. I think they're the best telescopes you can get for the money. I was holding my little Canon PowerShot point & shoot to the eye piece. It's a pretty low tech approach, but it works for Sun or Moon shots.

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[Rick Rubio]

I forget to mention that I hold a solar filter on the front of my scope (very important!). I use this scope primarily for night time viewing, but having a solar filter makes it versatile. They can be made from Mylar, but mine was purchased from Orion.

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On Jun 6, 2012, at 9:03 AM, Dan Linder <d...@linder.org> wrote: