I’m very new to the hobby, but I do have a very nice spotting scope (Vortex Razor 27-60x85) and a solar filter I bought for it for the eclipse last year. Could something similar be achieved with it and an adapter for my MFT mirrorless camera?
I can reliably see Saturn’s rings with the scope, but I’ve never tried shooting the sun.
Solar filters will produce a different image than this because they filter out different wavelengths of light, to get similar images you need a hydrogen alpha filter, you definitely can look at the sun with that telescope though just keep in mind it could damage anything that is not made for passing light through, just as a precaution keep the mirrorless camera exposure setting a little on the lower side.
I have used my mirrorless camera on my telescope loads of times and have not damaged it yet as far as I know, I have only used a solar filter for it though. I once put my collimator laser thing in my eyepiece hole while it was a pointed at the sun and that was a mistake lol, it burnt a hole into the plastic target printing in no longer than 2 seconds, at least you will know if you have made a mistake rather quickly lol.
Here is what a solar filter picture will look like
I’m very new to the hobby, but I do have a very nice spotting scope (Vortex Razor 27-60x85) and a solar filter I bought for it for the eclipse last year. Could something similar be achieved with it and an adapter for my MFT mirrorless camera?
I can reliably see Saturn’s rings with the scope, but I’ve never tried shooting the sun.
Solar filters will produce a different image than this because they filter out different wavelengths of light, to get similar images you need a hydrogen alpha filter, you definitely can look at the sun with that telescope though just keep in mind it could damage anything that is not made for passing light through, just as a precaution keep the mirrorless camera exposure setting a little on the lower side.
I have used my mirrorless camera on my telescope loads of times and have not damaged it yet as far as I know, I have only used a solar filter for it though. I once put my collimator laser thing in my eyepiece hole while it was a pointed at the sun and that was a mistake lol, it burnt a hole into the plastic target printing in no longer than 2 seconds, at least you will know if you have made a mistake rather quickly lol.
Here is what a solar filter picture will look like