lousy image quality is due, probably in equal parts, to my $50 "zycor" 500mm lens and my $2 "happy birthday" solar filter.
kyle (who was once gainfully employed as an astronomer at the Franklin Institute whereupon grevious peer pressure from the other nerds forced him to learn morse code at 13 wpm in order to get the general class ham radio license that he's pretty much never used since then but-it-was-so-cool-to-talk-to-the-other-a