These indirect sun viewers are easy to do with the kids but we would like more resolution. I mentioned earlier that T and I looked for shade 14 welding goggles at the local hardware store but couldn't find any. I ordered a replacement visor plate online for a few dollars and it just arrived in the mail. (Do not try this with anything less than shade level 14!) I held it over my camera with a telephoto lens and took some shots at 1/2000 of a second at F 5.6. Several had some blur, even at such a short exposure, because I was holding it freehand (both the filter and the camera) without a tripod. However, I did get this below (taken 11:42 AM local time, May 27).
The sun is green because of the tint in the welding shade. Here is a zoom in.
You might be able to see some sunspots in a band down the middle. It helps me to adjust the brightness on the screen a bit. I looked them up at
http://www.spaceweather.com/.
Here I've labeled the ones I can make out just to the right of the spots.
And here is the image from
space weather for comparison. The relative orientations are rotated between the images.
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