Sunday, August 28, 2011

McMath Sunset

Tonight's sunset behind the McMath Solar Telescope atop Kitt Peak. 800mm lens ISO 400 1/200 sec @ F/7.1 through Baader Solar Filter. This image was captured from 12.2 miles away from the mountain top where the telescope resides.



The video below was obtained from the same location using a Questar 3.5 and a Canon 5D Mark II in video mode at 1080p. The video is sped up by a factor of 2 for brevity.

3 comments:

Jim said...

Very nice sunset pix!

Mike Waling said...

Verrrry coool!

NiteSkyGirl said...

Truly stunning and amazing, it really really wowed me!