45% cloud cover, my ass

[unixronin]

Six minutes to totality, and cloud cover just went from nine-tenths to ten-tenths.  Can't see a damned thing.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I got out my camera and tripod and took a sighting, during one of the brief clear patches, but the 10x IS zoom isn't nearly big enough for the job, and the camera doesn't have interchangeable lenses so there's no way to mate it to my 60x spotting scope.

[tomatoe333.livejournal.com]

http://www.matoe.org/gallery2/v/tomatoe/testscans/IMGP2162.jpg.html

Digital SLR, 400mm lens, bigass tripod, frozen fingers.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Nice shot. I think the lens on my Powershot Pro90IS is 35mm-equivalent to a 28-280mm or something in that order, but it's too short for astrophotography. I had a T-adapter for my 35mm SLR to mate to the spotting scope, but, honestly ... I was almost never using the camera because of the hassle of getting film developed, and then of trying to get anything more complex than portrait snaps printed right without going to a custom shop that'd charge me $50-$100 per frame.