I was wondering about using an astro-tracker and how one might go about aligning it during the day.
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 8:32 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/27/2017 20:09, Larry Colen wrote: >> >> > >> >> 4) A ballhead that is good enough for landscape work isn't necessarily >> good enough for photographing the sun. With the camera at that steep >> angle, once I tightened it down, things would still flex, which meant >> aiming took a lot of time. >> > > About a third of the way through I figured out it was easier to leave > the ball head alone once I got it locked down & adjust tripod legs to > keep the image in the frame using Live View. > > If I live long enough to make it to the 2024 eclipse, I'm going to have > some kind of astro-tracker that will mount two cameras and I'm going to > be on site the night before so I can set it up using the north star. > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > > -- > 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. -- -- Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. Dorothea Lange -- 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.
