[gregbradley]

I know there is another thread about the eclipse. But I am wondering what would be an ideal setup for imaging it.

I presume a high quality DSLR is the ideal setup with maybe 300mm focal length? Perhaps a bit longer?

Or a lightweight APO around 500-600mm focal length.

I guess its all about FOV. I found my TEC110 was a handy focal length with a full frame camera or even APS camera for the sun during the Venus tranist.

But then the question is do you use some sort of solar Ha filter or simply the Baader solar film (images though are very plain with that white look) or do you simply shoot with fast shutter speed, leave it all on auto so it compensates for the changing light conditions and take lots of shots.
Or do you use a neutral density filter to pull down the brightness so the camera can handle it without blowing out the highlights which I imagine is going to be the issue. There are also circular variable ND filters (basically a pair of circular polarising filters) that you can spin and increase/decrease the amount of filtering easily. With the camera set to auto that may be very flexible.

I'll experiment with one of those with my DSLRs and post the results. I am sure there will be some interest in that.

So a lightweight tracking unit like a Vixen Polarie could be very handy just to keep the sun in the frame as I found getting the sun stable in the frame manually was hard with my TEC110 during the Venus transit.

I was thinking of a time lapse as well at the same time.

Suggestions?

Greg.