Originally Posted by
Leigh
. . . But you're going to have other problems, such as keeping the sun centered in the frame as it moves.
All work except totality MUST be done with a solar filter over the lens. It's extremely dense.
Also, you need to have the camera on an equatorial mount, not our common az-el mount.
An equatorial mount has the rotational plane parallel to the earth's equator.
That's because the sun traverses the plane of the ecliptic from our viewpoint, and in fact defines same.
- Leigh