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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