It's all fine as long as you have someone else to take the wheel.
On 6/7/12 9:04 PM, Herschel Mair wrote:
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
