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Old May 2, 2017 | 02:29 PM
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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 Jay Pasachoff and Mark Sood and their Classic Tours group. I'm 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 ScopeSutff mounting rail and three rail cars for each of the two mounting screw holes on the zoom lens pedestal for maximum support. I'm also observing totality with a Celestron C90 and partial with Celestron 9x63 Astronomical binoculars. Everything, including spotting scopes, will have Thousand Oaks Optical #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'll write down bracketed shutter speeds for partial and totality. I imagine most of the Pashachoff/Sood 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.





















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Old May 2, 2017 | 04:30 PM
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Wow.

Sandy and I are going to son Rob's (and family) in Nashville. They actually live north of Nashville, closer to the center of the shadow's path so we should get several great minutes of full eclipse. We will be equipped with our Mark I - ISO 12312-2:2017 Solar Eclipse disposable glasses from SolarEclipse2017.com.

Looking forward to your pics sometime in late August. You may even have them posted by the time the shadow reaches Tennessee.
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Old May 2, 2017 | 09:09 PM
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Wow is right. The earth is really spinning sideways where Rapter lives.
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Old May 3, 2017 | 08:37 AM
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Wow again! It looks like you'll be ready to photograph the eclipse. Please...You must give us a link to your eclipse photos when the time comes.

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Old May 3, 2017 | 09:21 AM
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Originally Posted by skunkworks
Wow again! It looks like you'll be ready to photograph the eclipse. Please...You must give us a link to your eclipse photos when the time comes.

Gary
Will do, Gary.
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Old May 4, 2017 | 07:21 AM
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Dayum! In for the pics!
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Old May 4, 2017 | 05:31 PM
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Awesome setup! When is the total eclipse, again?

Your neighbors don't worry seeing you adjust the equipment, from your study?
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Old May 5, 2017 | 08:09 AM
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Wow that's quite the rig. A goodly number of the photos display in the wrong orientation in Chrome tho.

The eclipse is August 21st.

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/...2017-august-21

As LOML are planning on retiring in the Eastern TN area, I may use this as an excuse to go scope out the area
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Old May 5, 2017 | 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by windhund116
Awesome setup! When is the total eclipse, again?

Your neighbors don't worry seeing you adjust the equipment, from your study?
8/21. Nah, they can't see in.
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Old May 5, 2017 | 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by cdubea
A goodly number of the photos display in the wrong orientation in Chrome tho.
I know. Sorry. It's a long story.
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