Thanks for the link but I've known about such kinds of filter material
for more than 35 years. I've not yet been inspired to buy some. Too
lazy I guess.
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/6/2012 3:11 PM, Maurice M. Greeson 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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