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Be sure to frame and focus with live view, because direct viewing of the sun can damage your eyes. Most photographic filters pass a lot of UV, and that is a leading cause of serious eye damage. A real solar filter is about a 15 stop filter, and is carefully made to handle the heat of the sun, and control all wavelengths, including the dangerous UV band.
A time lapse is an interesting approach, but the sun appears to move a fair ways over the roughly 4 hours of the eclipse, so keep that in mind.
A very large sunspot is currently visible on the face of the sun, and should show up well in telephoto photographs if you get the exposure right, unless it also becomes eclipsed.
If I can find clear weather, my photographs will be taken with a telescope and a solar filter made for viewing and photographing the sun. I am hoping for good detail of the sunspot to make the image quite interesting.
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