Rustbucket Astrophotography
Jun. 6th, 2012 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acmespaceshipHere is my Transit of Venus photo:
And here is my high-tech gear in action:
One pad of white paper
One pair of Galileo 8x21 folding binoculars, handheld
One Panasonic Lumix point & shoot, handheld (not shown but its presence may be inferred)
One Weber Smokey Joe to prop up the pad of paper
One small mirror, a sheet of paper with a hole in it, and some mylar (not shown), none of which proved useful
And yes, I pulled the closeup into GIMP to crop the image, remove color aberration and increase contrast. I have a real camera and also serious optics but no solar filters, so I wasn't motivated to point them at the sun.
In the shot above, a telephone wire is crossing the top of the sun while Venus crosses the bottom. The Transit of Telephone Wire is the more common phenomenon but has never, as far as I know, been photographed from this location.
There. Now I feel like I've earned my "General Technics" name badge ribbon from DucKon. And I didn't need any liquid nitrogen either (that will be a separate project and there will be ice cream).
And here is my high-tech gear in action:
One pad of white paper
One pair of Galileo 8x21 folding binoculars, handheld
One Panasonic Lumix point & shoot, handheld (not shown but its presence may be inferred)
One Weber Smokey Joe to prop up the pad of paper
One small mirror, a sheet of paper with a hole in it, and some mylar (not shown), none of which proved useful
And yes, I pulled the closeup into GIMP to crop the image, remove color aberration and increase contrast. I have a real camera and also serious optics but no solar filters, so I wasn't motivated to point them at the sun.
In the shot above, a telephone wire is crossing the top of the sun while Venus crosses the bottom. The Transit of Telephone Wire is the more common phenomenon but has never, as far as I know, been photographed from this location.
There. Now I feel like I've earned my "General Technics" name badge ribbon from DucKon. And I didn't need any liquid nitrogen either (that will be a separate project and there will be ice cream).
