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.
