So I'm really looking forward to your documentation! :-)
- Video, partial solar eclipse 2022
- Still frames
At any rate, it’s better than the video from 2015, isn’t it? 😅 (I hardly remember how I made those shots back then. I *think* took the photos through a floppy disk. 🤔)
- Video, partial solar eclipse 2022
- Still frames
At any rate, it’s better than the video from 2015, isn’t it? 😅 (I hardly remember how I made those shots back then. I *think* took the photos through a floppy disk. 🤔)
- Video, partial solar eclipse 2022
- Still frames
At any rate, it’s better than the video from 2015, isn’t it? 😅 (I hardly remember how I made those shots back then. I *think* took the photos through a floppy disk. 🤔)
- Video, partial solar eclipse 2022
- Still frames
At any rate, it’s better than the video from 2015, isn’t it? 😅 (I hardly remember how I made those shots back then. I *think* took the photos through a floppy disk. 🤔)
(Fun fact: I wrote down that it starts at 9:00 local time. Yeah, nope, that’s also wrong, but the other way around. 🥴)
(Fun fact: I wrote down that it starts at 9:00 local time. Yeah, nope, that’s also wrong, but the other way around. 🥴)
(Fun fact: I wrote down that it starts at 9:00 local time. Yeah, nope, that’s also wrong, but the other way around. 🥴)
(Fun fact: I wrote down that it starts at 9:00 local time. Yeah, nope, that’s also wrong, but the other way around. 🥴)
Oh, the moon just clipped the left upper corner. I was under the impression that it would have moved from right to left in the upper half. Very surprising to me. See, I know nothing about celestial mechanics. If not for your own joy (not a single doubt about that), all your effort was totally worth teaching me something new. ;-)
Hahaha, a floppy disk, this is brilliant! I love it. Now that brings me to your setup. I'm super interested on how you did it this time. Did you have some kind of filter or just "played around" with the camera settings? Not sure if that would fry the sensor. Did you set up a tridpod? In what intervals did you take the photos? Intervals differ I reckon, they don't seem to be equidistant. At least in the beginning the time passed between takes appears to be longer than later on. Was this some calibration phase? Couldn't find any EXIF data (I usually never look at them, but this time I really tried). :-) This covers the whole two hours I imagine? Or was it actually shorter?
Are the textures on the sun caused by clouds or are these just some (experimental?) filter artifacts?
Super fascinating! Like all good science, it causes tons of new questions. Thanks again for sharing all that, mate!
Oh, the moon just clipped the left upper corner. I was under the impression that it would have moved from right to left in the upper half. Very surprising to me. See, I know nothing about celestial mechanics. If not for your own joy (not a single doubt about that), all your effort was totally worth teaching me something new. ;-)
Hahaha, a floppy disk, this is brilliant! I love it. Now that brings me to your setup. I'm super interested on how you did it this time. Did you have some kind of filter or just "played around" with the camera settings? Not sure if that would fry the sensor. Did you set up a tridpod? In what intervals did you take the photos? Intervals differ I reckon, they don't seem to be equidistant. At least in the beginning the time passed between takes appears to be longer than later on. Was this some calibration phase? Couldn't find any EXIF data (I usually never look at them, but this time I really tried). :-) This covers the whole two hours I imagine? Or was it actually shorter?
Are the textures on the sun caused by clouds or are these just some (experimental?) filter artifacts?
Super fascinating! Like all good science, it causes tons of new questions. Thanks again for sharing all that, mate!
This is how the setup looks like:
https://movq.de/v/46ff94e58b/
It’s a Celestron Ultima 100 scope, which I originally bought for birdwatching. It’s not *that* great for watching stars or planets, but the sun is big enough, so it mostly works.
At the front, there’s a solar filter (“Baader ASSF 100”, they don’t make it anymore, though?). It blocks out a lot of light and I don’t think you could make these kinds of photos without a filter like that. You can also watch directly through that filter with just your eyes. :-)
At the other end, there’s a special connector, so I can mount my Canon EOS 600D directly. The entire scope is now the camera lens. Super useful.
The tripod is not suited for this setup, though. It has a “pistol grip”: You squeeze it and then you can freely rotate the thing. Problem is, the scope and the camera are waaaaay too heavy. The tripod doesn’t move on its own, that’s not the issue – but when you unlock the grip, find your position, and then relock, then it doesn’t lock at that exact position, but moves a tiny bit further. Do you understand what I mean? 😅
The tripod isn’t that much of a problem when making photos of the sun, because the sun is huge and you can use the scope’s lowest zoom level (22x). But for planets, you have to use the highest zoom level (66x – which still isn’t great, btw, the scope works better at lower levels) and then the tripod becomes really annoying. Also, you can’t make *small* adjustments. It’s always: Unlock (which means you lose your position), find new position, relock.
The intervals are between something like 2 minutes and 10 minutes. It covers the entire 2 hours, yes. It would have been better if I had made one shot every 2 minutes all the time, but that wasn’t possible, because it was way too cloudy in the beginning. I didn’t even expect to see anything at all, really. 🥴 So, yeah, the texture you’re seeing is clouds.
This is how the setup looks like:
https://movq.de/v/46ff94e58b/
It’s a Celestron Ultima 100 scope, which I originally bought for birdwatching. It’s not *that* great for watching stars or planets, but the sun is big enough, so it mostly works.
At the front, there’s a solar filter (“Baader ASSF 100”, they don’t make it anymore, though?). It blocks out a lot of light and I don’t think you could make these kinds of photos without a filter like that. You can also watch directly through that filter with just your eyes. :-)
At the other end, there’s a special connector, so I can mount my Canon EOS 600D directly. The entire scope is now the camera lens. Super useful.
The tripod is not suited for this setup, though. It has a “pistol grip”: You squeeze it and then you can freely rotate the thing. Problem is, the scope and the camera are waaaaay too heavy. The tripod doesn’t move on its own, that’s not the issue – but when you unlock the grip, find your position, and then relock, then it doesn’t lock at that exact position, but moves a tiny bit further. Do you understand what I mean? 😅
The tripod isn’t that much of a problem when making photos of the sun, because the sun is huge and you can use the scope’s lowest zoom level (22x). But for planets, you have to use the highest zoom level (66x – which still isn’t great, btw, the scope works better at lower levels) and then the tripod becomes really annoying. Also, you can’t make *small* adjustments. It’s always: Unlock (which means you lose your position), find new position, relock.
The intervals are between something like 2 minutes and 10 minutes. It covers the entire 2 hours, yes. It would have been better if I had made one shot every 2 minutes all the time, but that wasn’t possible, because it was way too cloudy in the beginning. I didn’t even expect to see anything at all, really. 🥴 So, yeah, the texture you’re seeing is clouds.
This is how the setup looks like:
https://movq.de/v/46ff94e58b/
It’s a Celestron Ultima 100 scope, which I originally bought for birdwatching. It’s not *that* great for watching stars or planets, but the sun is big enough, so it mostly works.
At the front, there’s a solar filter (“Baader ASSF 100”, they don’t make it anymore, though?). It blocks out a lot of light and I don’t think you could make these kinds of photos without a filter like that. You can also watch directly through that filter with just your eyes. :-)
At the other end, there’s a special connector, so I can mount my Canon EOS 600D directly. The entire scope is now the camera lens. Super useful.
The tripod is not suited for this setup, though. It has a “pistol grip”: You squeeze it and then you can freely rotate the thing. Problem is, the scope and the camera are waaaaay too heavy. The tripod doesn’t move on its own, that’s not the issue – but when you unlock the grip, find your position, and then relock, then it doesn’t lock at that exact position, but moves a tiny bit further. Do you understand what I mean? 😅
The tripod isn’t that much of a problem when making photos of the sun, because the sun is huge and you can use the scope’s lowest zoom level (22x). But for planets, you have to use the highest zoom level (66x – which still isn’t great, btw, the scope works better at lower levels) and then the tripod becomes really annoying. Also, you can’t make *small* adjustments. It’s always: Unlock (which means you lose your position), find new position, relock.
The intervals are between something like 2 minutes and 10 minutes. It covers the entire 2 hours, yes. It would have been better if I had made one shot every 2 minutes all the time, but that wasn’t possible, because it was way too cloudy in the beginning. I didn’t even expect to see anything at all, really. 🥴 So, yeah, the texture you’re seeing is clouds.
This is how the setup looks like:
https://movq.de/v/46ff94e58b/
It’s a Celestron Ultima 100 scope, which I originally bought for birdwatching. It’s not *that* great for watching stars or planets, but the sun is big enough, so it mostly works.
At the front, there’s a solar filter (“Baader ASSF 100”, they don’t make it anymore, though?). It blocks out a lot of light and I don’t think you could make these kinds of photos without a filter like that. You can also watch directly through that filter with just your eyes. :-)
At the other end, there’s a special connector, so I can mount my Canon EOS 600D directly. The entire scope is now the camera lens. Super useful.
The tripod is not suited for this setup, though. It has a “pistol grip”: You squeeze it and then you can freely rotate the thing. Problem is, the scope and the camera are waaaaay too heavy. The tripod doesn’t move on its own, that’s not the issue – but when you unlock the grip, find your position, and then relock, then it doesn’t lock at that exact position, but moves a tiny bit further. Do you understand what I mean? 😅
The tripod isn’t that much of a problem when making photos of the sun, because the sun is huge and you can use the scope’s lowest zoom level (22x). But for planets, you have to use the highest zoom level (66x – which still isn’t great, btw, the scope works better at lower levels) and then the tripod becomes really annoying. Also, you can’t make *small* adjustments. It’s always: Unlock (which means you lose your position), find new position, relock.
The intervals are between something like 2 minutes and 10 minutes. It covers the entire 2 hours, yes. It would have been better if I had made one shot every 2 minutes all the time, but that wasn’t possible, because it was way too cloudy in the beginning. I didn’t even expect to see anything at all, really. 🥴 So, yeah, the texture you’re seeing is clouds.
Yes, I fully understand the issue with the tripod lock. I know that too well from my own tripod. I luckily don't have a ball joint, so the backlash is only reduced to one axis, but still. It is a lightweight tripod, that doesn't help rigidity at all. When zooming (and that's when the tripod will be used most often), it's prone to shaking around fairly easy, compared to a heavy duty professional tripod. Even pushing the trigger button at full zoom can cause the field of view to shift a wee bit. I often thought, that some fine adjustment screws would be really cool to have. Conceptually a little bit like an X Y table on a milling machine or (compound) tool carriage on a lathe.
Ah okay, so you were quite lucky in the end with the viewing conditions. :-) The weather forecast also initially reported clouds for my location, but in the end, there weren't any.