A good tip is, when the tripod/telescope/camera is on the roof of the
car, it's best to stop driving, especially down dirt roards which can
contribute to blurry pictures and damage to both car and instrument.
Herschel
BTW... same applies to wives, pets, kids etc, who may take up too much
room inside the car when you're carrying all the gear.
On 6/7/12 9:22 AM, Andrew Davidhazy 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
