Beautiful! It's best to turn the engine off if you're going to put the camera on the roof -- and get out of the car! Roger Sent from my iPad On Jun 7, 2012, at 10:22 AM, Andrew Davidhazy <andpph@xxxxxxx> wrote: > In a rather hurried manner I managed to get a few photographs of Venus at the edge of the Sun disk with a 1500 mm Questar and a Canon 5D MII. Questar fitted with an interference Sun filter. Never measured Neutral density but expect it is something like 4.0. ISO 200 at 1/100 second. > > http://www.davidhazy.org/andpph/2012-docs/2012-venus-transit-6638A.jpg > > When telescope was on roof of car there was some vibration present but then I moved the scope to the ground and the vibration seemed to go away. I tried both live view and regular thinking I might detect a difference but, alas, I failed to keep notes so I don't know which is which!! I was unprepared for mirror up setting. :( > > g'day! > Andy
