TODD's FILM and VIDEO EFFORTS 1997 - today     The total solar eclipse from Aruba on Feb. 26, 1998 - 135mm telephoto lens Notice Jupiter below, and Mercury to the upper left of the eclipsed sun!     I finally got out in late April 1997 to a dark site in southern N.H. to catch Hale-Bopp on it's final leg. Notice at that time the dust tail was huge, over 20 degrees long, while the gas tail pointing straight up and to the left was puny.     Orion's Belt with a f/6 Astrophysics 5.1" EDF - prime focus 5 minutes with Fuji 800 film, includes the Orion Nebula, M42     In this still, "snappied" off of video, the Moon was captured at about 300x, including the "bridge" featured in the 1998 Sky and Telescope article.     The Perseus Double Cluster shot at prime focus in a Televue 85mm refractor for 4 minutes using Fuji 800 asa film