[ATMoB-discuss] This Monday's partial solar eclipse and a visit to the Beijing Planetarium

[Mario E. Motta]

Unless you can get something to act as a filter, then all images will be 
badly overexposed, likely damage the chip or camera as well.
So.. build a pinhole camera projection, and take images of the projected 
image, just need cardboard and a small hole.

Mario

Bruce Berger wrote:
> As luck would have it, I'll still be in Beijing for the 3/19/07 02:30 UT
> partial solar eclipse, which will start at 09:30 here and last almost 2
> hours. I have a simple digital camera with me - no filters. What kind of
> advice can the group offer about photographing the event? I'm in the 40%
> zone. I'm hoping for what is a rare day of clear skies here, but if the air
> has its usual tinge of smog then that may be filter enough.
>
> While I have your attention, I visited the Bei Jing Tian Wen Guan
> (Planetarium) last Saturday and posted some pictures here - 
> http://atmob.org/gallery/showgallery.php?id=53. I also went to the Beijing
> Ancient Observatory, supposed the oldest in the world, but we got there too
> late to be admitted. I took some photos from outside, but plan to return
> there today (Saturday) and will post some pictures in a new gallery then.
>
> Bruce Berger
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