Exposure Data

• Instrument: TMB 4.1" f/6.2 APO
• F/stop: approx. 4.0
• Exposure: 16 x 1 second
• CCD: SBIG ST-7E
• Animation duration: 05:59 - 06:18 MESZ
• Date: May 31, 2003
• Location: Niederleis, Lower Austria
• Conditions: Slight haze, otherwise clear
• Enhancement: Adobe Photoshop 6.0
• Notes: A photographic Thousand Oaks glass filter and a Baader solar filter foil were used the reduce the brightness to a level acceptable for the CCD. To get the full image of the sun onto the chip, a Celestron Focal Reducer (actually produced for f/10 SCTs) was employed.