My pics of the Venus transit

[Big Wall]

Here are some of the pics I took of the Venus transit today. I don't have a fancy imaging set up. I just hold a piece of crap camara up to the eyepiece.

Shortly after it began. Look at about 8 o'clock. There are also sunspots visible in most of these pics.

[tmleadr03]

Cool!

[battle_sight_zero]

Pretty darn good pictures. Thanks for sharing! Did you do that with a refractor? I have a big dapsodian I wish I could do pictures

[Irving]

The sun looks awesome. What did you do to protect yourself from being blinded?

[sniper7]

very cool!

[Big Wall]

Pretty darn good pictures. Thanks for sharing! Did you do that with a refractor? I have a big dapsodian I wish I could do pictures

Yes, I used a 4" refractor with a 26 mm eyepiece giving a magnification of 38X. You could probably do pics with your dob. I haven't tried with mine though. These aren't timed exposures so you don't have to worry about tracking.

The sun looks awesome. What did you do to protect yourself from being blinded?

I used a white light solar filter on the end of the telescope. That is what gives the sun the orange color. For some reason the camera shows the yellow/white spot when taking a picture. It's not there just looking with your eye. I'm not much of a photographer so I couldn't tell you why that happens.

[roberth]

Great pictures, thank you for posting those up.

[airborneranger]

Awesome!

[blacklabel]

Sweet pics!

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

Thank you for sharing!