Venus Transit, Si Senors y Senoras

Yes.  The Bosom Brotherhood was ready.  We got to see from when Venus the Planet just began Her, I mean its, journey before Ogma's fired up visage.  Mercy!  We took 17 pictures that lived, employing a variety of filters. 

We got to watch from about 5:05  until a little after 6PM when high clouds obscured Ogma Sunface. 

Here's a sample picture from when all of Venus was in there.  In there, I tell you.  No color filter.  That's all Astrozap. 

Duh.  We need to find out if those are sunspots or scope boogers.  But so far, we have not found any picutres for comparison.

Venus transit at 5:09 PM, Stinky Valley, Texas

More notes on the Venus transit

The Bosom Brothers discoveed that maybe the easiest way to track the sun is emplying the finder.  No.  You don't look at the sun directly.  What you do is line up the finder as close as you can get with the sun.  Like you can do this by putting your good hand behind the finder and then watch the shadow of the finder on your hand.  Once you have the sun lined up fairly well, you want to continue adjusting until you see a spot of bright light on you hand plumb in the middle of the finder shadow.  Whey you see that, you are lined up on Ogma Sunface.  Also, once you have it lined up as previously described, you can keep the finder aligned by keeping the bright spot of the sun's reflection  in the center of the eyepiece objective.  Course for this to work in the scope, the finder and the scope need to be collimated together as even Heck the Pup knows.

Also, those extra dark spots or squiggles are not scope boogers.  They are actual sunspots.  Alas, they are poorly resolved due to the inabilty of the C5060WZ to focus even though they are tack sharp with the C90 plus whatever cheap plossl.  It' like dude, you may need a better camera rig to do tack sharp sunspots.  Actually,  Crumby thought about employing a different camera.  But heh.  Once you've seen a sunspot or two, you have seen them all.  So what's the point, maybe.