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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli
@banditelli.org

Anyone in Los Angeles have a telescope with a Hydrogen Alpha Quantum Filter? There are crows who are flying across the sun in Long Beach right now and it would be super cool to get a shot of them flying across the chromosphere. If anyone is in circles with folks they can hit me up, I have thoughts

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli
@banditelli.org

I went back down to this location 2 days ago and I realized that the crows aren't roosting in Long Beach, their staging in the palm trees next to the ocean and then flying over to the port and likely roosting at the port. This means they'll fly across the Sun if you stand on the pier

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org

WOW! I've been seeing a medium sized murder of crows on my way to my pelican sunset location, about 40-50, and I've thought about stopping, but never had the time. Today I had an extra 20 minutes and while driving past I saw WAY more crows AND them swooping on GULLS! I stopped. And got these. 🪶 ⚔️

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli
@banditelli.org

We have a couple months to do this, I believe. Till mid November or so. I'm going to go down to the pier tonight and see if I can get them with an ND filter, it's entirely possible they don't fly high enough to go past the sun.