Help.... First Stab At Solar Imaging Today.......

[Mikey0368]

It's wall to wall sunshine in Edinburgh today so I'm going to have a go at imaging the sun. I have an 8" Newtonian, a home made filter and I'll be using a modified Canon EOS 600D.

Could anyone give me some pointers re ISO settings and exposure length please? And do I need to be careful not to cook the camera?

Thanks.

 

Edited April 22, 2019 by Mikey07

[tooth_dr]

That’s a really nice job there with the filters. Good luck today! I’d say a low iso and set to manual and try different exposures until it looks good (use histogram to help you)

[Stu]

You shouldn't cook the camera as the filters will have removed all the dangerous UV and IR intensity from the light. You have done a really nice job on your mounting for the filters, they look great.

As tooth_dr says, there is plenty of brightness to play with, so use a low ISO and start at say 1/125th second and see how you need to change from there.

[Mikey0368]

Here's a JPEG that I got and I'm pretty happy with it. ISO100 and 1/1000 exposure.

 

[Davey-T]

57 minutes ago, Mikey07 said:

Here's a JPEG that I got and I'm pretty happy with it. ISO100 and 1/1000 exposure.

Looks good just a pity that the nice sunspot has disappeared let's hope there's another on its way as it makes white light focussing easier.

Dave

[Stu]

Yep, shame it's a blank disk just now

Keep trying and you will catch some activity sooner or later. Shot looks good.