Thanks all. The scope is an 8" Celestron Newtonian. The camera is a Canon T2i at prime focus. The CalSky predicted centerline of the transit went almost exactly over my house. I set the camera to burst mode (~3.7 frames per second) and started capturing exposures about 2 seconds before the indicated time for about 5 seconds. The first 3 exposures all captured the station (the transit only lasted .8 seconds), so my timing was off by a couple seconds. I'm glad I pulled the trigger early. This was the sharpest and best-framed exposure. I'm shooting through Baader photographic (ND=3.8) film. There was a thick layer of clouds and the exposure was perfect (though pretty fuzzy) at 1/4000th second (the fastest shutter speed the camera will run), but the clouds thinned out just seconds before the transit and I didn't have time to stop things down a bit (I have various sizes of black construction paper I tape over the center of the solar filter). As such, the shot was overexposed a bit, but I think it turned out OK for my first try. Jared On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:
Great shot, Jared. What was the scope and what the camera? Thanks, Joe