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X Vario and the solar eclipse; ideas?


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I plan on going to see the totality of the upcoming solar eclipse and want to shoot it with my trusty X Vario. Does anyone have any ideas on how best to do this? Is there anyone who has used the Vario in a digiscoping set up? I know they make an adapter for the X1 and X113, but wasn't sure if that worked for the Vario. Any thoughts or ideas will be greatly appreciated.

 

Best regards,

 

Adam

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Adam.

Self-confessed astro-nut here, and I cannot agree more with David's sage advice. Enjoy the moment.

I've never seen a total. Seen a few partials, and imaged them plus transits (Venus, and Mercury) as well as Lunar obviously, but the total is something still on the bucket list.

 

Back in the day, I used an old Digilux 4.3 for lunar imaging, it was all I had, and I made a suitable bracket that held the camera at the appropriate distance and position near the eyepiece, so I was doing "afocal eyepiece projection" I think. It worked, and at the time I was happy. Now? Nah, too hard, and I have better options. But back in the infancy of digital it was earth-shattering, LOL.

 

The two lines David wrote sum it up.

Gary

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