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It hasn't been completely crappy.
At the beginning of June, Gareth was all hot to watch the Venus transit on the 5th, so the weekend before, we trundled over to a telescope store in Costa Mesa to spend $30 for about eight square inches of solar filter film for our telescope. The guy at the store gave us a lot of helpful tips, and while he also had the special sunglasses, which we also purchased, it turns out Venus is really too small to show up against the sun as viewed by the naked eye. He also told Avalon she could have the 18" iron meteorite sitting by one the telescopes if she could pick it up and carry it out the door.
(Didn't I write about this before? Maybe I did at Tumblr, but I couldn't find it. It would be nice if you could actually access the tags you've used there, but I haven't found how yet.)
Gareth put the filter together with some cardboard to fit over the lens, and by gum, we were actually able to see it, although not anywhere as clearly as most pictures I've seen.
I don't have any sort of camera attachment, but these were the best I could do just holding the camera up to the lens.
But I think you can actually see some sunspots as well!
Gareth was quite pleased and has been dragging the telescope out to the front yard once or twice a week ever since.
At the beginning of June, Gareth was all hot to watch the Venus transit on the 5th, so the weekend before, we trundled over to a telescope store in Costa Mesa to spend $30 for about eight square inches of solar filter film for our telescope. The guy at the store gave us a lot of helpful tips, and while he also had the special sunglasses, which we also purchased, it turns out Venus is really too small to show up against the sun as viewed by the naked eye. He also told Avalon she could have the 18" iron meteorite sitting by one the telescopes if she could pick it up and carry it out the door.
(Didn't I write about this before? Maybe I did at Tumblr, but I couldn't find it. It would be nice if you could actually access the tags you've used there, but I haven't found how yet.)
Gareth put the filter together with some cardboard to fit over the lens, and by gum, we were actually able to see it, although not anywhere as clearly as most pictures I've seen.
I don't have any sort of camera attachment, but these were the best I could do just holding the camera up to the lens.
But I think you can actually see some sunspots as well!
Gareth was quite pleased and has been dragging the telescope out to the front yard once or twice a week ever since.