Nice Looking Spots You Got There

Some impressive looking sunspots today.  Got a nice shot of them earlier this morning, will try again around noon when I should be able to get a bit sharper of an image.

Cool, did you see the one that woman did with the space-station transit the other day? That was good.

Great sunspot pic.

This is an ISS transit from yesterday. Pretty amazing...

Cool, did you see the one that woman did with the space-station transit the other day? That was good.

I did not until you mentioned it.  That's a great photo!

Great sunspot pic.

This is an ISS transit from yesterday. Pretty amazing...

I've taken a dozen pictures of ISS transits like this, it's a lot of fun.

The great thing about pictures like this is anyone can do it.  The software to predict transits is free, if you have a cellphone you can get a cheap zoom adapter plus solar filter for maybe $50.

It won't be this quality of course, but it's something nearly anyone can do to verify that these pictures are real.  It's not nearly as hard as you would think.

I got a closeup with a higher mag but more fiddly scope.

It's all fake, of course.   

It's all fake, of course.   

Tom Bishop said it's spots on my camera lens.

air brushed

Quote from: Jura-Glenlivet II on June 22, 2022, 08:21:05 AM

Cool, did you see the one that woman did with the space-station transit the other day? That was good.

I did not until you mentioned it.  That's a great photo!

Quote from: Stash on June 22, 2022, 10:15:52 AM

Great sunspot pic.

This is an ISS transit from yesterday. Pretty amazing...

I've taken a dozen pictures of ISS transits like this, it's a lot of fun.

The great thing about pictures like this is anyone can do it.  The software to predict transits is free, if you have a cellphone you can get a cheap zoom adapter plus solar filter for maybe $50.

It won't be this quality of course, but it's something nearly anyone can do to verify that these pictures are real.  It's not nearly as hard as you would think.

I got a closeup with a higher mag but more fiddly scope.

Do you use a motorized equatorial mount? If so and recommendations on which one to get?

Here's my best moon shot from this time last year. Canon 400mm zoom & 5D Mark II. Still fuzzy, I wish I could have acquired critical focus.

Do you use a motorized equatorial mount? If so and recommendations on which one to get?

Here's my best moon shot from this time last year. Canon 400mm zoom & 5D Mark II. Still fuzzy, I wish I could have acquired critical focus.

That's a really good shot.  A normal motorized mount isn't going to work because it tracks the rotation of the Earth, and the moon is orbiting so it still won't stay in place. But with the shutter speeds in use it shouldn't be an issue.

I don't use a mount for shots of the sun because the shutter speed is around 1/5000 and so no need to track anything.

I do use a solar filter made specifically for taking pictures of the sun. That is something you do not want to half-ass with stacked filters or other nonsense.  They are pretty cheap and worth saving your camera sensor.

Thanks JJA. A more true to life representation of the colour of our star that the BS NASA always puts out. Yes, yellow/orange looks pretty - but that's not what our sun looks like. And so many people think our star is yellow because of this. If our star really was yellow, snow would look like its been pissed on

It's all fake, of course.   

Obviously. The Christian school I attended told me that stars are giant balls of burning coal.