These shots, reduced in size and JPG Optimized to speed download, were taken with a handheld Sony TR840E Hi8 camcorder and captured as still frames via an iMac computer.
Image quality is superior to many entry level digital cameras and webcams.
The Park is general above the inversion layer and cloud is rare here at this altitude in our experience. The following images testify to the clarity of the skies within the Park close to the solar limb - an extremely sensitive test. Distant spiders webs and seed-heads can be seen floating in the wind and catching sunlight radially to the sun eclipsed by a foreground rock. Earlier many stars to mag 5 were captured on the camcorder including one of Jupiter's satellites.