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Roof
of Hotel Burcharest; Bucharest, Romania Date: August 11, 1999 Instrument: BW Optik 100 mm f/6 "semi-apo" refractor coupled with a 2" Astro-Physics 2X barlow Camera: Nikon F4 with custom made 15X viewfinder for critical focusing Mount: Super Polaris German Equatorial with Vixen DD-1 drive controller Film: Kodakrome E200 slide film Filter: BAADER solar filter material; filter was used for first shot (partially eclipsed sun) only Comments: (Scanned directly from original slides.) Totality was far shorter than I expected. This made me rush through the exposures, not pausing much in between each shot to allow for the shutter-induced vibrations to die down. Also, the SP mount was heavily loaded because I mounted an University Optics 80 mm refractor, which I used as my visual instrument, together with the BW Optik. In addition, the focuser of the BW Optik is rather weak and loose mechanically. All these reasons account for the less than optimal sharpness in these shots. |