Needs is a strong word.
I just need a website that tells me when to start playing Dark Side Of The Moon
Is it really such a great idea to point your smartphone camera at the sun? Won’t this damage the ccd?
Won’t this damage the ccd?
Yes, which is why you need to use a solar filter.
Don’t know if you’re joking, but just to be safe: no need for a filter
edit: apparently I was wrong
“When shooting still images or video of a solar eclipse, one rule is paramount: special-purpose solar filters must always remain on cameras and telescopes during the partial phases (including the annular phase of an annular eclipse).”
It’s a good way to fry your camera. If you’re taking a single shot, you’re fine. But if you’re recording continuously, you can damage your phone’s sensor.
Here’s the map of the April eclipse across the US. It will go from Dallas Texas and curve off through Buffalo New York and maine:
Going right through my town and I’m looking forward to it… so of course there will be total cloud cover.
Same experience here. Meteor shower… cloudy, lunar eclipse… cloudy, Aurora… cloudy, comet that’s visible for a couple of weeks… you better believe it’ll be cloudy every day.
Some types of clouds dissipate right before an eclipse then come back shortly thereafter
Oh I’m going to do this. I’ll have 97% at my little cabin, and my husband is going to drive a little bit east to film the totality. We were planning to film anyway, so we might as well share it with NASA.
