Eclipse weather...

[ffutures]

...not looking good. With 15 minutes to go it's completely overcast, really doesn't look like any improvement is likely. Also cold, damp, and miserable. But I've got my cameras ready and will keep an eye open for any break in the clouds. Still more than an hour to the maximum and I might get lucky.

Comments

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Those are pretty good considering the camera. Would you mind if I linked to them on a science technician's site? Might be useful for lessons.

[nojay.livejournal.com]

Yep, go ahead. The camera was a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H300, a low-end bridge camera with a very long zoom range and high pixel count hence the decent size of the images (the ones above are actually scaled down by about a factor of 4 or so). The autofocus hunted a lot, there was no manual focus and I couldn't override the exposure and aperture settings so they're not as good as I would have liked.

The original images are all green since that's the colour of the welding helmet filter, I converted them to greyscale in PhotoPaint.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Many thanks!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

OK - I've done that, and said that if they want to use them in lessons they should download a copy to their network and link to that, rather than chewing up your bandwidth.