Sensor cleaning needed

Yesterday’s outing with the camera found me stopping a lens down all the way to f/32. The end result shows that I haven’t been taking good care of my sensor lately. It’s almost too embarrassing to publish, but I’m not all that shy. Here it is. With all of its gory specks of dust.

At least I know what I need to do tonight.

Update 21:00 All clean now. It only took a serious session of blasting air on the sensor (Giotto’s Rocket Blower) and four passes with Eclipse…