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Mar 11, 2015 12:11 |  #1

Hiya,

I managed to finally get sunshine today, so I aimed the camera at the sun with a solar filter, and I think I captured Sunspot 2297.

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Mar 11, 2015 14:00 |  #2

What kind of solar filter ?




  
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Mar 11, 2015 14:06 as a reply to  @ Celestron's post |  #3

I was going to post to a link to where I got it from, but Amazon don't seem to have it any more. It makes the sun orange colour, but it wasn't Thousand Oaks. It was a non-name make.


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Mar 11, 2015 15:56 |  #4

good start :)

not sure if it was the camera out of focus or if the filter you used caused the blurriness ?
how were you doing focusing .... it would need to be manual .... auto isn't likely to work :)


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Mar 11, 2015 21:33 |  #5

Good start but your focus is way off. Or you have a really bad filter. I'm putting my money on focus though.


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Mar 12, 2015 12:56 |  #6

Nice start. As the others said...focus is critical. Keep trying and posting.


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Mar 17, 2015 02:53 |  #7

Not really sure about Focus or optics in combination with the filter to be blamed but yes, Great job and Way to Go.


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Mar 17, 2015 13:05 |  #8

One thing I have found out from imaging the sun is it really is very hard to get good focus and almost impossible to get perfect focus . All factors have to be considered with the filter first and the user second . When I focus I concentrate on any sunspots and the sun edges . That is really the only way to focus . If there is no sunspots the edges are the only thing that helps with focus .




  
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