Nice images here and in the Scotland thread! I was up before 5 AM hoping to image the sun above the large satellite dish at the university (UAF), but thick dark clouds were located in the north-east where the sun should be rising. Up again at 8 am, but still cloudy if a little better -may be there was hope.... At 9 am I could finally see sharper distinction between light and shade although still mostly cloudy. A quick inspection in the binoculars and I could see Mercury and the sun outlined sharply! Never give up hope!
Here are the first results. I got down the road to a place with a free view and set up my tracker and lens. the very first frame in false colors (using AW-1 for all images), still with clouds drifting in front of the sun:
It soon became even less cloudy and the sun was warming quite well.
I was able to follow it all the way until 10:43 am when it disappeared from the solar disk. (After these colorful frames I had to add some color to the Astrosolar film rendition):
The setup near the start; the tracker provided very comfortable framing of the sun in spite of not having a dedicated solar rate. I only had to adjust framing a few times. (However when reading the Scotland tread I realized that one could miss out on some creative possibilities when using a tracker, but of course the tracking can be shut off). Somehow the light clouds stayed right where the sun was, but luckily they were transparent enough. One hour after it was over it had gotten more cloudy again, and I could barely make out the outline of the sun in the my Astrosolar film protected binoculars.
