A 50% filter cuts light intensity by 1/2? I have heard about those telescope attachments. Very cool.
I wouldn't worry about your camera. The trick is to not let your camera choose the settings when photographing the moon. It'll never get them right. If you can set the aperature, shutter speed, and ISO manually, you're good. Standard moon settings are: ISO 100, Aperature f/11, and Shutter Speed of 1/100. And if your camera won't let you set those particular values, you can still adjust to get the same levels.
There is also a simple technique for photographing the sun. Or rather, photographing scenes with the sun in the frame, so it doesn't blow out the picture. But that doesn't sound quite what you're talking about.
I take it the solar film, the active hydrogen filter, and all the rest are components for telescopes?
But now that you mention it, capturing photos of the sun with a good telescope and appropriate filters could make for some interesting photographs...
you can probably get a sodium filter for the camera... filter out any of those nasty city lights :) could help.
i certainly hope you have a nice high transmission daylight filter :)
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o figure out your "due south", take a picture a night from that fixed spot and aim, from new moon to new moon :) collage. do the same thing with moon centered. lunation :)
o find the planets - same thing :) do it for a year, once a week... discover retrogades... good stuff.
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i keep meaning to buy this $30 thing that holds my digital camera over my telescope's eyepiece and let's you shoot what you see.
viewing the moon, i need at least a 50% filter to not go blind. i wonder what the camera will think.
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I wouldn't worry about your camera. The trick is to not let your camera choose the settings when photographing the moon. It'll never get them right. If you can set the aperature, shutter speed, and ISO manually, you're good. Standard moon settings are: ISO 100, Aperature f/11, and Shutter Speed of 1/100. And if your camera won't let you set those particular values, you can still adjust to get the same levels.
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I take it the solar film, the active hydrogen filter, and all the rest are components for telescopes?
But now that you mention it, capturing photos of the sun with a good telescope and appropriate filters could make for some interesting photographs...
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i certainly hope you have a nice high transmission daylight filter :)
projects:
o figure out your "due south", take a picture a night from that fixed spot and aim, from new moon to new moon :) collage. do the same thing with moon centered. lunation :)
o find the planets - same thing :) do it for a year, once a week... discover retrogades... good stuff.
o find an eagle's nest. duck a lot.
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