The Solarscope is a hit with the many visitors to the Keck Headquarters. I am glad I brought it all the way from Delaware.
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Monday, 4 June 2012
Not a great picture of the partial lunar eclipse last night. I don't have a camera clever enough to let me take good photos of the moon, but you can see the shadow of the Earth "bite" out of the moon's lower part. I guess the picture let's me know I was there. This was at 1am Hawaii time. Delaware folks probably missed it because the sun had set already.
The last two pictures were taken with the iPhone through binoculars.
Friday, 1 June 2012
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Friday, 25 May 2012
Saturday, 19 May 2012
I made a quick solar scope with binoculars, a clamp, a cardboard shield, and a white paper screen. You can see at least three sunspot clusters that I confirmed are real using a real solar observatory website.
All this is practice for the transit of Venus that we will observe in Hawaii on June 5th. There will be much more professional observers there so this is my backup to the backup.
Friday, 27 April 2012
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