Palo Duro Day 1

My wife driving a big ole, 26'  RV!   I think she likes it.

Still about 4 hours to go before we make it to the park.

Venus Transit today - 6/5/2012

Haven't had the old Telescope out in a while...

But since Venus' transit across the sun is all the rage today, and since it won't happen for another 105 years I just had to dig it out.

So I threw on the Solar Filter...

And started snapping some pics - these are about the best I got...

I didn't power up the telescope motor so it wasn't auto-tracking. I had to keep adjusting manually as the sun moved.  That's kind of a pain... and boy was it hot out there!

Here are my pics of the "Venus transit" this afternoon.  I used my digital camera and just held it

to the eyepice of the telescope.  They are a little shakey, but I didn't have time for

a full equipment setup...  :-)   (Oh yeah, a lot of sunspots visible, you can see some in these pics)

Clear Skies!