On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Kevin Waterson wrote: > > Will anyone here try to photograph the Transit of Venus that will take > > place in some eight hours? (05:19 to 11:22 GMT) > > I was curious as to what methods people are using to photograph > the sun like this. My 1,000,000X ND filter is missing.
I have a filter made of aluminized mylar film that's originally designed to fit a telescope. Not totally ND, it gives a colour cast, but I suppose it's somewhere around 1,000,000 X though :-) This is how it looks like: http://anders.hultman.nu/kamera/solfilter.jpeg http://anders.hultman.nu/dagens/040608-092939 Here are some pictures from previous celestial events: http://anders.hultman.nu/album/al/eclipse-bucuresti http://anders.hultman.nu/album/al/eclipse-2003 anders ------------------------- http://anders.hultman.nu/ med dagens bild och allt!
