With all the observing happening yesterday. I was out in the daytime for an 11AM observing session that turned into a long observing session and discussion . . . into dinner/late lunch. That solar observing session netted us some photographs, but we were having some problems focusing the cameras on the solar detail with Harold's HA setup on the C14. I think this was due to our cameras being in the well lit environments.
Then in the evening. . . I went out for a short session. Was really tired but went out at about 10:20PM. Met a few observers and we had a nice long marathon kind of observing session ending with Mike and I looking at Jupiter (taking a few stills) and then looking at M42 as it was rising just high enough to view. It was a very exciting night. For some reason when I woke up this morning I thought it was Saturday. . . probably to tired. There were some things to do around the house and I didn't drift off to sleep at 3AM after observing but actually played with some images for a while of Jupiter and ended up turning in at 5AM. Woke up around 11AM. Actually waking up a bit while sleeping as well. So that lack of sleep contributed to a generally non-productive day.
I was held up at home with some things to do and went out for a late lunch/dinner around 4PM. Drove out to the Belleville Michigan area. I ate in that area, and was still very hungry after dinner. About ready for a second dinner. As I started to drive back I felt tired and ready for a nap. Rather than hit I-94 I decided to park and take a nap on a street in the car in Belleville. I actually had drove out and packed my car as if it was Saturday and in case I ended up observing. A short 30 minute nap did me good. Then I decided to check out the waterfront near the lake there and saw the setting sun. Since I had my binocular telescope with me, I decided to do a little solar observing and look at sunspots. I could see two sunspots but the haze from clouds and setting sun in a lot of haze hindered the view and eventually decided to put the telescope away. I had a camera with my so I decided to take a few shots of the sunset and the lake with the Canon EOS. I took a few different exposures with a tripod hoping to play around a bit later with an HDR processing program or Photoshop.
Here's a fairly quick Fusion results from four photos of the sunset. I didn't process this to much differently than Photomatix Pro would do with default fusion settings.
Had a nice but slow time. There was a lot of haze. Ate a late dinner and went to Meijers to run an errand. I actually saw one of the regular visitors James at Meijers as I was heading to the check out and went up greeted him. He was picking up a few things at Meijers as well. As it was hazy out, but clearing and I was tired I decided to not try to open up tonight. I may open up early tomorrow if I wake up early enough and perhaps go by the school and do an impromptu Solar Projection. Right now HJRO is not setup for WIFI as we lost the network connection so any Solar would be "optical projection" of a safe image into the classroom using my Solar Projector setup.
Enough late night posts. . . which hopefully will make sense to the readers. . .
Here's a quick "fusion" of the four exposures from the Sunset in Belleville today.
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