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.
Added to blog for Astronomy
I'm a member of the FAAC Astronomy Club. We provide technical aid for the Hector J Robinson Observatory in Lincoln Park Michigan.
The original observatory was refurbished in 2009 thanks to the help of Dr. Timothy Dey who had a vision to reopen and fix up the observatory and Leo McMaster who is a middle school teacher at the middle school. We have new equipment installed at the observatory thanks to a grant from Toshiba and more info can be found here an on other sites on the net.
STUDYING DECAY PROFILE I'm just a guy with a little digital camera. Taking a few quick photos once in a while. I work in Detroit, live near Detroit. Detroit area, easy to slam I suppose. I'm focusing on decay, but not trying to make this a Detroit is all bad blog. However there's a heck of a lot that is messed up in Detroit. So most like to get out and never look back. Those who stay or try to help, are faced with huge and often overwhelming problems. Massive growth and now massive decline followed with a lot of crime and poverty.
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