anyone notice the sun is a bit different today? how do you take a picture of the sun using ordinary digicam?

what so special about today sun? difference color?

there seems to be an "outer ring".

tell us more detail
maybe today is lailatul qadar

i dunno much about it. u try n go out and have a look right now, it's still there. you'll get what i mean.
anyway, anyone knows how to take a pic? will it damage the camera's ccd?

outer ring?
how does that look like?

it's hard to describe leh, some sort of large ring outside the sun. u try n have a look. the best if u have a film negative with u, look through with the film negative.

end of days~

WATEFAK

the light of the sun is so strong today

by the way, Balok, what is "lailatul qadar"? u think it's related? sorry for my ignorance.

It's Cloudy over here, cannot see the sun..
Anyone got pic?

that's why i'm asking how to take picture of the sun. dunno whether it will damage the camera's ccd sensor or not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laylat_al-Qadr
it appear that sign of lailatul qadar happened when the sun is pucat ( i guess )
and there will be a peacefull night

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Added on October 11, 2007, 1:42 pmNO

This post has been edited by Balok: Oct 11 2007, 01:42 PM

i think wat u mean is "solar halo"

Solar Halo

first time, i see this "ring" was in my primary school, then i see this again for 2 ~ 3 times in my secondary school.
maybe i always look outside when teacher teaching


This post has been edited by zaqre: Oct 11 2007, 01:54 PM

icic thanks bro. mmm... peaceful night.... that's good.

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Added on October 11, 2007, 1:52 pmexactly!! that's how it looks like. mmm.... they have to shade out the sun to take the pic.

This post has been edited by petunia: Oct 11 2007, 01:52 PM

Does it looks like this?

that's a nice one bro.

oh follow the photographer's idea la. let a tree or some objects obstruct the sun but not the halo. then u capture the pic

wow,great pic axymax!

As long as you can manually control the exposure (most likely with the help of aperture priority mode and the lowest ISO setting and maybe a ND filter), you should be able to get it.

The halo effect is due to ice crystals in the sky, when a very humid sky after a heavy rain suddenly gets cold and the vapours form into droplets which in turn gets frozen. The micro ice crystals then diffract light like how a rainbow is formed but either because they span a very wide area or that they are very high up (can't remember exactly the real reason), they appear as a halo to observers and not a rainbow.