We had a great time observing the eclipse in Allen Park
Dan, James, Brian and Mohammed came out to observe at the hill overlooking a nature pond in Allen Park. We saw the moon start to cover the sun. We had four telescopes setup. I had enough time to drive home and pick up big Bertha a ten inch Newtonian and set it up with a white light filter. Several visitors saw us and stopped by. Some riding bikes other walking or driving by stopped to take a look through our telescopes which had safe sun filters. Mohammed brought a safe solar film viewer as well that works with a large piece of film material on a card. It's made by thousand oaks.
I took some photos with my 3d camera as well. The sky looks pretty good tonight but I observed for ten hours yesterday so in too tired to open the observatory up late Sunday night. Even though the sky is excellent and it will be cloudy tomorrow, an amateur astronomer has to get some sleep sometime.
Greg
Video clip below was just a short clip shot through the eyepiece of big bertha using my iPhone. Others took much better photos and video sequences. Notice the cloud bands with clouds moving in.
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