Sun in HAlpha 
With Lunt LS100THa 
Uploaded 5/21/12

Weekend Report
For the weekend of May 20, 2012
 

            
 For this
            weekends Annualar eclipse, we headed up to Page, right on the
            center line for totality. We brought our cameras, telescopes
            and plenty of rations and found a nice "quiet" butte
            west of the town of Page, several miles out. After setting up,
            the forest service arrived, then bus loads of visitors, eclipse
            watchers and then dozens of amateur astronomers fully equipt
            to watch the eclipse! Little did we know at the time our quiet
            location was the hot bed for State Park major event, and what
            a carnival it ended up being. We all had a great time, the sky
            was totally clear, cloud free and dry. Here are a few quick images
            processed the next day that highlight the event...

            
Many more to come
            in a more complete write up, stay tuned!
 
Images below are 800-1290 wide and non clickable
 

            
 The
            "Ring of Fire" at totality with the Lunt 100:

            


            
And
            here is a long series of exposures with the DSLR combined into
            one seamless sequence of the entire event:

            



Instruments:  Lunt LS100THa Halpha or Canon 17-40mm @17mm
Platform:  Televue GEM
Camera:  DMK 51 USB, Canon XTi Hutech Modified
Location:  Page, Arizona
Elevation:  6500 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 1/5, Transparency 6/10
Outside Temperature: 80F
Processing: Autostakkert 2,  Photoshop CS2

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