IPhone Adapter for a Telescope and More!

While this Instructable is available to anyone, the photographs are Copyrighted © 2018 by Jonathan Gleich (That's Me!) And can be used freely as long as I am given photograph credit.

It's a once, (maybe twice) in-a-lifetime event: a full solar eclipse, and you want make sure you capture it.
So I was shooting with multiple devices.

I was using a Canon 5D Pro camera with a 400x Prime zoom lens, a Celestron telescope with an iPhone6, as well as an iPad.

I needed to get an adapter for the iPhone to fit the telescope and found they were available as 3d Templates Online on Thingiverse using the wonderfully easy Tinkercad Program.

https://www.tinkercad.com/things/59xV9IC1JAF#/

I had one 'printed' locally and it worked perfectly.

Here is a quote from Wikipedia what Thingivere is:

... a website dedicated to the sharing of user-created digital design files. Providing primarily open source hardware designs licensed under the GNU General Public License or Creative Commons.

Staring into or taking pictures of direct sunlight will make you blind and burn out the camera sensors!

So I purchased THESE;

https://www.highpointscientific.com/spectrum-full-...

$80 to protect a $4000 camera? DAMN, SKIPPY!!!

I took over 1000 pictures using all three devices. Here are some of my favorites: