Re: Shooting the eclipse.

[Frank Schiffel <SchifF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

forget the Nostradamus garbage.

its a total eclipse. you'll need a solar filter until you hit totality. use a 500mm on a 35mm camera
or better.

I'm not sure what good HIE will have on it. might as well use conventional B&W unless you want
the large grain on it. H-alpha lines are much better to look at, but they are not IR. that's another filter..boy these filters get expensive.

later.

>>> <Luvdove6@xxxxxxx> 6/28/99 2:30:18 PM >>>
I have been hearing about it...  scary thing is that in a Nostradamus 
quatrain it was said that in that eclipse of the sun in 1999, we will see a 
tail of a comet that we are supposedly supposed to literally pass right 
through in September...  I guess its only scary if you believe his 
predictions!   
That had nothing to do with IR tho...   I was going to ask...  is that 
eclipse a total eclipse?  Or partial?   Because if it is partial then the HIE 
will pick up to much light and it will be a total white picture wouldn't it?  
I've never done it though so I was just wondering  ;-)

~Holly~

>  Living not too far away from the path of totality of the august 11th 
>  eclipse, I'm hoping to get some good pics. 
>  Have any of you shot an eclipse before, does anyone have any tips ? what 
>  filter do you recommend for shooting with HIE ?
>  
>  Thanks,
>  
>  Ian
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