I didn't get too far with my big binoculars. The vignetting is severe enough that it was almost impossible to even find the sun with them. And when ...

Since I got such good results with my small binoculars, I decided to make a pair of filters for the big 16x70 ones. They don't have the metal structu...

@zander That's a very cool mount! Expensive, though. I have a pair of Celestron 16x70 binoculars that are very good, but they also require a tripod....

My own experiments have not gone well today. The camera seems to be a no win. I can't get the focus right, the images are noisy, and the intervalome...

OBS is a very good free app for recording video.

@zander That's a really useful article, thank you for posting the link. I'm still making decisions about how to handle this without biting off too mu...

Another slight improvement in the forecast. Guess it depends on just when the clouds "give way". Or maybe they just changed the wording. "A shower ...

We still have a few days to go, but if the forecast stays as it is now, Bill may be the only one who gets clear skies for Monday. Looks like cloud co...

While I was cruising Amazon looking at telescopes over the past day or so, I was wondering why no one had put together a scope/mount that could figure...

@zander Thank you. Yes, I'm aware of them, but have never really looked at them. I'm not sure I will have an ongoing interest in this. The eclipse ...

"A shower in spots in the morning; otherwise, intervals of clouds and sunshine; the temperature can drop several degrees during the eclipse"That's wha...

Just to compare, Bill's little 50mm solar scope has a focal length of 360mm, about 1/4 of mine. The sun will fill just about half the frame of the HQ...

Oh, you're talking about using my Sony as the camera that looks through the scope. I thought you meant that I should piggyback the camera (using its ...

Hmm. I will attempt to answer my own question. It seems that with a sensor as small as the one on the HQ camera (6.287mm x 4.712mm), the "crop facto...

I thought about that. The scope does have a mounting block - I assume it is so you can use the optical tube on a different mount. It is exactly oppo...