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We can't download the full-size, as you didn't click "store original", or whatever the button says...

I am looking forward to doing some moon work, now that the moon is moving back into the evening sky...

I shot it on the SeeStar, and it took care of nearly everything. I told it to do a timelapse, and what the intervals were,
and away it went. I sat in the car, holding my phone, and occasionally recentering it on screen. It isn't very precise, as you
can clearly see.

I had hoped to capture the whole thing, but for some reason the scope couldn't find the sun. Even after I used a work-around to
center it myself, it still kept saying, nope, no sun here...

I had wanted to have a practice run, but we haven't seen the sun for some weeks. Sunday afternoon was the first time, and that
was when it first decided that we were orbiting an invisible object. I asked one of my contacts on youtube, and she had experienced
the same thing on hers. She suggested the work-around. It *did* work, but only after failing a whole bunch of times. That was how
I missed the start. This was literally the very first timelapse I had attempted, and I didn't think I could persuade the participants
to repeat it for my benefit!

I know this scope is no match for the equipment used by some of you guys, but I don't have a lot of available funds,
and I also have nowhere here to set up a 'proper' scope. I have no garden, and the door opens about 1 step from the sidewalk.
Fortunately, there is a church just across the street, and I can head to their parking lot. I have everything in the car, plus
somewhere to sit while my masterpieces are developing. That is an important factor these days. I do wish I had an enclosed yard
or garden, where I could set it going, and sit indoors watching progress on the phone or tablet.

Following on from my earlier post, where I was unable to actually upload my timelapse,
I have since uploaded it to YouTube, where it can be viewed at: https://youtube.com/shorts/TfI1wuywdTo

This was a whole heap of images taken at 5 second intervals. As I described earlier, it goes from about
25 minutes in, through to about the 2/3s point, where the clouds moved in, lots of them. Considering the
forecasts, we had great conditions for most of it. I have heard from a lot of people who traveled to
Texas - which was forecast to be about the best conditions - and saw hardly anything at all.

Shame it wasn't total here...

As the un-eclipsed section moves around to the South, it shows a pretty good smiley-face...

I had decided to attempt a timelapse of the eclipse, weather permitting. Never had a clear day to practice, until Sunday.
SeeStar could not find the sun... Reached out to a friend on youtube, and she suggested a way around this.

I found the sun using the built-in astro search, had it perfectly centered, but back at the main screen, nope, no sun here...

Kept trying this approach, and the eclipse got under way. You could see it in the scope, clear as day. Back to the main screen, nope, nope nope, YES!

So, I missed the first bit, but captured from about 25 minutes in, until the clouds came in about halfway through the withdrawal. I am going to try
and upload the result, but may be stymied because of file size. It jiggles around a bit, where I had to recenter it through the app.

No ;uck with the upload. It tried for about 5 minutes, then got the "unable to find this page" message. Oh well...

While I understand the desire for safe viewing, I always wonder where Galileo bought his mylar glasses...

Man, I am glad to see you here! It was starting to get lonely out here, as the only Brit...

Not for me. It is already set to Google.

There is no entry there for search engine...

British Army, 1972-1983. Regimental band, 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards, Armoured regiment of Wales and the border counties.
Rank at release - the dizzy heights of Lance-corporal.

Not for me. My default search engine - deep in the bowels of Edge - is set to Google, just as is the default search engine in windows settings... So, why does does it keep using Bing?

I did that... It still uses Bing...

Not me. What I hate is that, despite the fact that my default search engine is Google, windows will use bing anyway... I keep hearing about lawsuits against Apple for their dodgy tactics, so why does Micro$oft get away with it?

This was taken back in 2018, using my Yuneec Typhoon H

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