Tag Archives: Thermal Blankets
Preparing my Setup
Following the good advice from this blog, I ordered the Mylar emergency blankets which arrived today. I had prepared some cardboard fixtures but as it turned out they did not seem too steady. I finally decided to go ahead affix the two sheets of Mylar with some office tape and a rubber band to […]
Why can’t I use a ND filter to photograph the transit of Venus?
Summary: Although you can probably use (a combination of) photographic neutral density (ND) filters to reduce the same amount of light as a typical solar filter (e.g. Baader solar filter), it is not SAFE for your eyes as it will not filter out the harmful Ultraviolet (UV) and infra-red (IR) light. The table below shows […]
Gearing up: Received Baader AstroSolar film
The last time I pointed my camera towards the Sun to photograph the 2009 Total Solar Eclipse, which is also a “once in a lifetime experience,” I had used a piece of a $9.00 Mylar Thermal Blanket instead of a proper solar filter in front of my lens. Well, that was not by choice but by chance […]
Photograph'g Transit of Venus 2012 