I have a 6 inch telescope that has a special attachment for solar observations. Basically, instead of looking through the eyepiece, I focus the light from the eyepiece onto a square of white painted metal held beneath the eyepiece by a special bracket. I can place a piece of paper or a card on the metal (it also functions like an easel) so that I can draw on the paper to record the sun and location and size of sunspots. Of course, I can also just take an image of the sun's reflection on the metal or the paper with my camera.
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:32 PM, John Celio <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to try photographing the transit of Venus across the sun on > June 5th, but I've never tried shooting the sun before. Any of you > guys have tips you can share? Is there a special filter I should use, > or would a polarizer or ND filter be sufficient? I'm planning on using > my K 500mm f4.5, so I'll probably need to special order a large enough > filter, and I'll need to do that soon. > > Thanks, > John > > P.S.: Hey Aussie PDMLers, I loved your country! Just got home last > Friday. I hope I get to go back to Australia soon, especially to see > the outback and more of Tasmania. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
