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We've seen and shot total and annular solar eclipses from Roundup, MT. (51 miles north of Billings), Cabo San Lucas, Santa Catalina Island (off the coast of Los Angeles), Aruba, Munich, Puerto Vallarta, and St. George, UT. We're seeing and shooting the August 21 eclipse from Salem, OR with Dr. Jay Pasachoff and Mark Sood and their Classic Tours group. We're shooting and observing with a new Tamron G2 150-600 zoom lens and a new 1.4x Tamron teleconverter matched to that lens and Nikon D3400 mounted piggyback on a Meade 8" LX200 with a mounting rail and two rail cars for each of the two mounting screw holes on the zoom lens pedestal for maximum support. We're also observing totality with a Celestron C90 and partial with Celestron 9x63 Astronomical binoculars. Everything, including spotting scopes, will have #5 neutral density filters, which cut the light down to 1/100,000th. I just did get all of my equipment and I'm going to practice, practice, practice. The full moon is approximately the same light as totality. I imagine most all of our group will be flying to Salem, but we'll be driving Anne Marie's Acura RDX SUV. I can't wait!!! Pardon the sideways images.
Last edited by The Raptor; May 7, 2017 at 03:40 AM.
1- Do you listen to Bonnie Tyler while watching the eclipse(s)?
2- is the casting couch at your neighbors 5 doors down leather or vinyl?
Hey, Dave, you wiseass, it's better than being addicted to drugs! Seriously, if you haven't seen one, it's absolutely the most spectacular thing Mother Nature has to offer, period!
Last edited by The Raptor; May 2, 2017 at 03:36 PM.
I finally got my eclipse setup together.
Seriously, if you haven't seen one, it's absolutely the most spectacular thing Mother Nature has to offer, period!
RB 
NO silly to your house 
