Today’s solar photoshoot was done with my 80mm astrograph outfitted with a new 61.2 megapixel cooled color camera. This is almost three times the number of pixels in my Canon DSLRs. Except for the new camera and mount, the optical train is the same one that I used for the annular eclipse of Oct 2023.
The reason for shooting in white light today rather than using the H-alpha solar telescope was to figure out the correct focus for the new camera-telescope combo. In the future, this set-up will be my portable rig for doing astrophotography from dark sites. For solar viewing and solar photography, this setup requires the use of a solar filter in front of the telescope’s objective. The filter cuts out 99% of the sun’s light.
Below is the annotated result of stacking ~700 frames from a 10min AVI movie. The sun fits in about 1/8 of the sensor’s frame.
