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[atomant]

Before the CA Star Party last Friday, I did a practice run of solar viewing in parking lot by Adler.
The skies were clear but the winds were picking up and a cloud front was moving in fast.

I brought out 130mm f/5 Vixen newt and 180mm f/12 Takahashi cass mounted on my portable Orion SVP gem.

I had previously shot solar system stuff thru eyepiece projection with a 3MP Nikon SQ point-n-shoot camera.
Using a bracket to mount to eyepiece.
I wanted to test out shooting the sun with the 5MP iPhone 4 camera thru Meade 12.4mm plossl eyepiece.


The newt comes with cover with aperture mask of 40mm.
I taped a scrap piece of Baader solar film to the opening.



1/718sec, iso80, 650mm

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I also tested using full aperture filter.


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The iPhone's screen glare made focusing a chore.
There was also some light leakage between phone and eyepiece.
But I was overall pleasantly surprised.

Onward to transit!

[-=CROMAN=-]

Nice pics! How do you like that R130? I was looking into one of those this morning

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

I have found that the cell phone caneras are pretty damn good....and rival dedicated camera details.

Very good Bill.

And...you were catching some pretty sweet Lilac smells by the bush.

Nice.