Joe, What were the exposure details of your nice solar image that youo just posted? Thanks, Brent From: Brent Watson <brentjwatson@yahoo.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2012 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Solar glasses Erik, There are a lot of folks who are very concerned about damage to their cameras from the sun. I have a question though. When using their cameras for noraml photography, how many times do they catch the sun in the image and yet no damage occurs? The next comment would be that eclipse photography is different because the sun s larger and therefore covers a bigger portion of the shutter/image sensor. It is the same sun, but now the same amount of energy is spread across a larger area so the energy per area is less by the factor of the image size squared, or the ratio of the focal