NASA needs your smartphone during April's solar eclipse
NASA needs your smartphone during April's solar eclipse
The free SunSketcher app will use your phone’s camera to record the event and help study the sun’s ‘oblateness.’
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Is it really such a great idea to point your smartphone camera at the sun? Won’t this damage the ccd?
Won’t this damage the ccd?
Yes, which is why you need to use a solar filter.
Better download one right away.
Don’t know if you’re joking, but just to be safe: no need for a filter
edit: apparently I was wrong
"When shooting still images or video of a solar eclipse, one rule is paramount: special-purpose solar filters must always remain on cameras and telescopes during the partial phases (including the annular phase of an annular eclipse)."
It's a good way to fry your camera. If you're taking a single shot, you're fine. But if you're recording continuously, you can damage your phone's sensor.
Interesting. I could have sworn I read that it’s not required, but I can’t find it any of. I stand corrected.
