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Chris.B wrote:

I was shocked when I took Venus transit images with a new Canon Ixus
digital compact when the Sun came out as brown as hens eggs!

My relatively ancient Sony makes the Sun pink. In both cases I used
the same old, Baader foil, full aperture filter.

Even further off topic, is it true that you can get a colored glass
"hydrogen alpha" filter that does not cost thousands of dollars, but
has a wider FWHM that the serious ones? Where would I find one? When
I try to search for one, I just find fractional angstrom filters that
cost more than my car did new.

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crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions in
TARP money, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, gave themselves billions in
bonuses, and paid no taxes? Yeah, me neither."