Solar Eclipse taken place on July 22, 2009 is not only a beautiful scene to normal people, but also a great chance for many photographers to record such rare astronomy wonders material. In order to let people photograph satisfactory solar eclipse photos, here is some tips would be helpful.

The simplest method of astronomy photography would be photograph with camera directly. Since long-focus lens of most cameras can take big solar pictures, it would be easy to take photography before total solar eclipse stage by putting filter in front of lens. And you can use camera to photograph solar in total solar eclipse stage. You need to make sure the whole solar eclipse process would be within the picture by keeping solar on the left of the picture at the beginning of eclipse and on the right at the end of eclipse since the beginning and the end solar position would be in great distance.

You can also use telescope to photograph. It would be better to assemble with equatorial platform and tripod with motorized tracking function.
Here are two basic methods:
I: Magnification Photography: Directly focus the camera lens to the telescope lens to photograph.

II: Direct Focus Photography: It needs to use digital SLR camera. Take off the camera lens and telescope eye lens and connect the camera with telescope to use telescope as camera lens. The key device for such photography would be the DG ring connected camera and telescope which can be bought from astronomical equipments store.

Besides, use DV with filter to photograph solar eclipse would also be a great way. DV usually can compare the correct automatic focus and setting exposure parameter. If not, you can set as manual setting of exposure parameter and set focus as infinity. As it is the continuous process for taking video, we just need to adjust the position of DV sometimes to make sure the solar at the middle of the screen after photograph begins.