My first attempt at photographing the sun
Nothing to special, but was fun trying.
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If you say it's the sun OK, I'll believe you. Sorry but it doesn't look like it to me. How did you take it? 0 -
he must have some sort of special lens that blocks out the corona. Once you do that, taking a picture can be realitivily(sp?) easy.
Or he may be using a different wavelength of light?0 -
Hey, that's cool. You caught a couple sun spots in there. 0 -
I attached my digital camera to my telescope that has a sun filter.
If I had a $4000.00 Hydrogen-Alpha filter it would look like this.0 -
I like it.Cool pic.[8D]
Moon shot last night.I have got to set up and try this with a telescope.0 -
Actually that is pretty good / I used to use my telescope to project an image unto a white board. Looked zactly like that.
Any of you guys get the desire to do a liitle sun viewing make sure you read up on it first... A half second look at the sun with an unaided telescope could blind you perminate like. Good thing to know before buying the yonkers a telescope.....0 -
Take a picture of the moon landing sights for us, to prove to those on this board who don't believe they ever happened. 0 -
Good point- Safety first! [^] 8" mirror with a 12mm Eye piece will burn a nasty hole not only in you eye,but your head as well. 0 -
Why does it look like the right side is in a partial shadow? [:D][:D][:D][;)][;)][;)] 0 -
Cool shot FrancF, was it taken with D70s? 0 -
Did you take it at night? 0 -
Now I'm blind[:(!] Thanks alot[:(!] 0 -
Hey!! The sun has fleas 0 -
could you do the same thing with a regular telescope and a few layers of automotive window tint?
or, how about put some window tint on a mirror, then look at the reflection of the sun on the darkened mirror with a big magnifying glass?
sounds ghetto but it's cheap thrills0 -
Hey, Franc, I didn't know you were so interested in celestial observations. Good picture. Looks like my head, top view.
True, disappointing story here:
I was bumming around Hawaii is the late '90s, and while waiting for a haircut in Kailua-
Kona, a piano in the store occupied my time. The crowd liked it, and one guy in particular commented that his wife [with him at the time] was trying to learn. They were both there for cuts; this place did everyone and anyone.
He was/is rather absent-minded, the wife a bit frumpy, but still looking as best she could, considering life on The Rock.
Money is tight for anyone there, unless they have A Thing going [what exactly a Thing might be, I shall speculate at another time.]
I was not excited about the opportunity of hitchhiking to their place, to exchange their $8 for my hour of time.
I found out, after I politely declined, that the husband worked at Keck; rather a big wig there. He knew my interest, as most people have for the 'scope, and I was rewarded with a gentle smirk for my presumptions of them.
And so reminded me humility is a good thing, my skill and knowledge is not mine, and I'm just borrowing it while on this earth, and an afternoon with the professor and his wife would have gotten me an invite to the telescope; even maybe a job at the observatory; who knows, I might have been a regular, discovering rare objects on my late-night breaks, squeezing in a few minutes here and there between the more learned people on the view schedule.0 -
Very nice photos, Thanks for posting. 0 -
looks like a close up of an egg[;)] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by jabronij3
looks like a close up of an egg[;)]
Ostrich even.[;)]0 -
Really nice photos. 0 -
It looks like a Breast Implant. [:D] [:D] [8D] 0 -
I like it. It looks good on my phone. I'll take a look tonight on the computer. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Zulu7
Why does it look like the right side is in a partial shadow? [:D][:D][:D][;)][;)][;)]
That would be the edge of the eye piece. Its a pain to get the camera lens dead center. I will be ordering a CCD camera that way more advanced for doing this stuff, then I will also be able to get deep space night shots that will pickup all the colors not visible to the eye.0 -
Its a pain to get the camera lens dead center. Are you using a tripod to do this? I have a small telescope and can't get any thing like what you did. I don't have a tripod yet but I will be getting one. I hope you didn't mind my moon but this is an area that I find interesting and want to do more with.quote:Originally posted by FrancF
quote:Originally posted by Zulu7
Why does it look like the right side is in a partial shadow? [:D][:D][:D][;)][;)][;)]
That would be the edge of the eye piece. Its a pain to get the camera lens dead center. I will be ordering a CCD camera that way more advanced for doing this stuff, then I will also be able to get deep space night shots that will pickup all the colors not visible to the eye.0 -
Sperry- really cool place to visit. Mauna Kea only place in Hawai'i that gets snow. Ws living in COlorado when I used to visit construction there, so altitude did not really bother me- but folks living on Kam 3 Highway.... well! 0 -
Take your picture at night, next time! 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Wild Okie
Its a pain to get the camera lens dead center. Are you using a tripod to do this? I have a small telescope and can't get any thing like what you did. I don't have a tripod yet but I will be getting one. I hope you didn't mind my moon but this is an area that I find interesting and want to do more with.quote:Originally posted by FrancF
quote:Originally posted by Zulu7
Why does it look like the right side is in a partial shadow? [:D][:D][:D][;)][;)][;)]
That would be the edge of the eye piece. Its a pain to get the camera lens dead center. I will be ordering a CCD camera that way more advanced for doing this stuff, then I will also be able to get deep space night shots that will pickup all the colors not visible to the eye.
I am using the Orion steady pix mount. I basically clamps around the eye piece then the camera is mounted to the 1/4-20 camera stud in the back. It does have a long slot for adjustment. I am using a digital SLR so my adjustment is not much because of lens size. But it will work with smaller cameras.
To help me find and identify things in the sky I got this gadget, I have learned more in just a few nights with this thing than a months worth of reading.
http://www.telescope.com/jump.jsp?itemID=168388&itemType=PRODUCT&path=1%2C2%2C6%2C30&KickerID=858&KICKER0 -
Got more pictures ? [8D] 0 -
That SkyScout Personal Planetarium is a cool little dude. I have a cannon powershot with 12 optic zoom and all kinds of settings and stuff I'm trying to figure out. I have a 60mm Orion telescope that I have been able to see the rings of Saturn with and is great for looking at the moon. I also have a where the stars are cd. It knows where everything is at any time or place. I might be able to make a mounting bracket. I have a friend that is our tooling engineer at work and loves a challenge. It sounds like your headed into space way farter than I plan to go. What has always fascinated me. The farther you look the farther back in time you go. The image of the sun you took happened eight minutes before you snap that photo.
Thanks.0 -
I got one of those Sky Scouts, its great. 0 -
I have only dabbled in it for about a month or two. About 12 years back I had a 4" reflector, but now with all the new electronics and gadgets out for astronomy that were once super expensive but now are affordable I have decided to get back into it. I love photography but wanted to try something different.
That mount would be a breeze to make, and with what you have you can do the same with great results. Takes a few try's messing with settings etc. If I can do it, anyone can!
Pickup this months issue of Astronomy magazine, they show some cool picks of all 109 Messier objects and most of wich you should be able to get pics of (maybe not in as great detail) but in the ballpark.0
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