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Y2K Solar Maximum Sunspots 
Set into the Trees

Foothills Park, Palo Alto, CA
July 8, 2000

I would not have been at Foothills Park that day if the Vice President of Peninsula Astronomical Society, William Phelps, had not bumped into my wife Heide at yoga class the night before, where he talked us into joining him. As we arrived a the park, William was setting up his famous AstroPhysics 7-inch Starfire refractor on the top of the hill. As soon as he fitted the Baader Museum Solar Filter into the scope, I brought out my digital camera, an Olympus 2000 with a 35mm eyepiece glued onto it. This camera setup was actually William’s only several months ago. “My” camera did enjoy the homecoming as it was attached to the refractor again. William kindly proceeded to help me manipulate “his” old camera, with which he is more familiar than I. He set it to “Program” mode, and I just snapped away at the setting sunspots. What could be easier than that?

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