Well done Maurice. That's exactly how I made my solar filter. I purchased
an 8.5 x 11 sheet of Black Polymer filter for about $20. Made paper board
frames for scope (which has about a 5" aperture) and a pair of binoculars
as well.
Charlie
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Maurice M. Greeson <maurice@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I shot the Transit with my Olympus E-PL1 Mirco 4/3rds body attached to a
> Questar 3.5" Maksutov scope. I used the supplied solar filters. It was
> cloudy and rainy all day until just before 8PM... Still had a lot of
> turbulence. Wonderful experience! Here are 3 shots:
> http://tinyurl.com/76ggcxl
>
> Chuck, Thousand Oaks Optical has sheets of Solar filter material that you
> can use to make up your own filters. It's way down on the bottom of this
> page: http://thousandoaksoptical.com/solar.html I'm going to make a
> full aperture filter for my Questar....
> Maurice
>
> Jun 6, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
> > Interesting that it's bright enough for a photo. I thought about
> > observing it too but wouldn't subject my Celestron 8 to the sun without
> > a full aperture filter. Too expensive. I guess I'll just have to wait
> > another 100 years or so. :-)
> >
> > Chuck Norcutt
> >
> >
> > On 6/6/2012 9:55 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
> >> Yesterday afternoon and evening were spent observing the transit of
> >> Venus. None of us will ever have this opportunity in our lifetime,
> >> unless my goal of immortality proves successful (so far, it's
> >> working).
> >>
> >> I had earlier made a solar projection screen to fit on a smallish
> >> Tasco 60x600 telescope with a zoom eyepiece:
> >>
> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/7344944140/in/photostream
> >>
> >> I used it earlier to observe the recent solar eclipse, and
> >> occasionally use it to observe sunspots, though the angular
> >> resolution of a refractor of this size limits those observations to
> >> the larger sunspots.
> >>
> >> This is a typical photo of the transit of Venus, taken at 2130Z:
> >>
> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/7344944152/in/photostream/
> >>
> >> I took a few without any filtering, and more using a Wratten #15 deep
> >> yellow filter to highlight the sunspots.
> >>
> >> Chris
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