Solar Eclipse Dry Run
M y health has been improving this past week, finally, after a lot of physical therapy to build up my strength enough to walk around normally (mostly, anyway). I'm still struggling with breathing problems due to the long-COVID thing but my long-COVID inflammation seems to finally be improving. Since I had some strength and the sun was out, I thought it would be a good day to head outside with some astronomy gear. The sun was penetrating through a lot of haze and high thin clouds today which is better than overcast skies so I decided I should take advantage of this unusually nice weather. I could use all the practice I can get in preparation of the eclipse. Unfortunately, I definitely overdid it today so I'm back to having difficulty walking and even standing. This isn't great weather for solar observing nor imaging but I needed to take advantage of the fair weather with no threats of precipitation. I was thinking that I'd just take a couple of telescopes outside