Rammysherriff
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Here are sketches of the transit based on observations by Freya (6) and Rianna (5).
Freya has included the sunspots, whilst Rianna says she could see stars as well.
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Simon.
One man and his shed: http://s211.photobucket.com/albums/bb288/Astroshed/
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Rammysherriff
Carpal Tunnel
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Posts: 1967
Loc: Lancs, UK.
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Freya's:
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Simon.
One man and his shed: http://s211.photobucket.com/albums/bb288/Astroshed/
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Anonymous
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well, they must be pro's to make such a detailed sketch! cheers to you both!
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Victor Kennedy
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Those are the best pics I've seen yet. Those are exactly the way those sunspots in the middle looked.
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Anonymous
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Yup, looks like what I saw off the sunspots :-)
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Don W
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That's wonderful. It's great to get the young ones involved.
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Dennis
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Those are precious drawings! They both captured great detail including the subtle effects of atmospheric turbulence! Thanks for posting Ram! 
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Dennis
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lighttrap
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I've been looking at photos and drawings all over the web, and from around the world, and I think I like these drawings the best.
Mike Swaim
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dgs©
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Simon, you be sure and archive those pictures. Document a little on the back... date/time/artist name/event.
Let them try again in 8 years for a comparison (or will it not be visible there then?
In any case, I'm sure all involved enjoyed themselves.
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- david
8"Ø Newtonian on SVP, Moonlite CR2, Telrad
PST Oberwerk Ultra 15x70 Orion Ultraview 10×50
Hand-me-down Sears Refractor (Discoverer) 60mm×900mm
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half meter
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Those are priceless! I'd have them framed and hang them up.
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Gary
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Chris Graham
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Thats cute, getting them into Astronomy young is a good idea.
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jmoore
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That's it. I'm retiring from sketching. Can't ever top those!!!
Thanks very sharing. Wonderful and refreshing.
cheers,
jeff
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matt
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I think my doughter (who's in kindergarten) made a drawing in class too. When the teacher asked if anybody knew what was going on she was proud to say what and that she had looked at the transit in the morning before going to school. Before the drawing, here are a few dedicated observers anyway:
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Matt
CI700 mount with various scopes on top.
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matt
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... notice the French West Indies style. And now for a very rare theme in art: transit observer self-portrait! (the first pics was taken after contact II in the garage which faces north, this one in the garden facing south). Transit is in progress, sunburn also.
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Matt
CI700 mount with various scopes on top.
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Tom L
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Matt, I really think this is one of the best pictures of the day. You caught the whole experience... What distance is your card from the EP?
Looks like you have some up and coming astronomers there also...cute kids!
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Tom 
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Scott Beith
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Those capture it better than any other pics!!! Fantastic. Get them hooked early, as time not spent observing is wasted time.
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Dennis
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Well done Matt!
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Dennis
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Rammysherriff
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 03/26/04
Posts: 1967
Loc: Lancs, UK.
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Nice shots Matt!
Can you tell us how far the board is from the eyepiece, did you use any special materials, and size of eyepiece?
NB - after sitting at the eyepiece of a Newt for a scorching hour, I was thinking of all the poor souls who may have followed the whole transit on a Newt, and woke up today with sunburn just on on side of their face/body only, and with a white right eye.
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Simon.
One man and his shed: http://s211.photobucket.com/albums/bb288/Astroshed/
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matt
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Quote:
Nice shots Matt!
Can you tell us how far the board is from the eyepiece, did you use any special materials, and size of eyepiece?
NB - after sitting at the eyepiece of a Newt for a scorching hour, I was thinking of all the poor souls who may have followed the whole transit on a Newt, and woke up today with sunburn just on on side of their face/body only, and with a white right eye.
On the last part, it reminds me of the day I went to the French Open and sat from 11AM t o 7PM with the right side of my face facing south...
The kids are all the cuter as my daughter loves to have her picture taken. She's more of an aspiring model than an aspiring astronomer. And my son likes telescopes, but not as much as dump trucks and bulldozers.
I took all the pictures using solar projection with my Nexstar 80 and a 26mm celestron plossl. The screen in actually the back of a carboard-printed photo, so it suffers from being slightly glossy. It was about 4 feet away from the eyepiece, perched on a ladder. The difficulty there is placing the screen in a shadow (at first I had the garage, perfect), and moving the ladder along as the sun moves.
Unless you get into high-end equipment and care about location (such as worrying where your scope is placed to avoid daytime turbulence, etc), it's the best easy way to observe the sun.
I gave the occasional look with my 8"SCT with mylar filter, but (except for the crescent Venus at contact III) I think projection is the easiest way to solar observing. I could even see faculae near the sun's limb.
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Matt
CI700 mount with various scopes on top.
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Special Ed
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Matt--Thanks for posting the pictures of your set up and those cute kids! Although filters are useful for high power views of detail, it's good for folks to see the advantages of projection, . It's funny--I almost always observe the Sun using projection but the clouds were so thick Tuesday that I wasn't able to.
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Michael Rosolina
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