and this (Blue Mountains)

I just zoomed in.



There's sunspot 1093 at the bottom left and the 1096 complex in the middle of the surface of the Sun. Look at those prominences!

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All of this is possible because of Denis dropping by today. As he was demonstrating his occultation gear to me, he handed me a PCMCIA card. He said it was an analog TV card that he wasn't able to use anymore. I knew my netbook couldn't work with it. But I accepted it.

After he left, I looked up the company web site. Lo and behold, AVerMedia is a going concern. I found the drivers, application software, and user manual for the 501R CardBus. Installed everything. Unpowered the MallinCam. Plugged everything in. Returned to the Dell laptop. Oh oh. Black Screen of Death. Not good. But after hard booting, everything worked great!

Absolutely amazing.