Falcon 9 in front of sun with details in sun and rocket
Falcon 9 in front of sun with details in sun and rocket
Looks like I have a new goal to do sometime
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He says he took it will a telescope but that looks to be about 750mm of zoom so it could probably be done with an extremely high aperture zoom lens too if you can give it a hydrogen alpha filter
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I'm very new to the hobby, but I do have a very nice spotting scope (Vortex Razor 27-60x85) and a solar filter I bought for it for the eclipse last year. Could something similar be achieved with it and an adapter for my MFT mirrorless camera?
I can reliably see Saturn's rings with the scope, but I've never tried shooting the sun.
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Solar filters will produce a different image than this because they filter out different wavelengths of light, to get similar images you need a hydrogen alpha filter, you definitely can look at the sun with that telescope though just keep in mind it could damage anything that is not made for passing light through, just as a precaution keep the mirrorless camera exposure setting a little on the lower side.
I have used my mirrorless camera on my telescope loads of times and have not damaged it yet as far as I know, I have only used a solar filter for it though. I once put my collimator laser thing in my eyepiece hole while it was a pointed at the sun and that was a mistake lol, it burnt a hole into the plastic target printing in no longer than 2 seconds, at least you will know if you have made a mistake rather quickly lol.
Here is what a solar filter picture will look like
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The sun lights a match
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This blows my mind
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Just about any DSLR/mirrorless camera will be more than enough, might even be able to get by with a phone camera on a telescope eyepiece, the most important part in this case is the optical train and filter and a lot of lucky timing. There are more details in the other comments on this thread.
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Legit or AI ?
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Are you asking if I am ai or if the photo is ai lol?
The photo is not ai and neither am i
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Although this comm is for original content only, this post will stay up since it’s gotten a lot of traction (and is a pretty badass pic)
Woops sorry about that, didn't realize it was originals only.
Thanks for keeping the post up though!