Shooting the sun can you damage a CCD?

 
Shooting Sun You won't be able to use Iris and ND to reduce the sun to a nice golden ball.
You'll need to use electronic shutter.
This will mean that there is a lot of energy hitting the ccd.
I suggest that you shoot an evening sun which will be less bright.
 
I regularly shoot with f11 1000mm prime lens.
 
A few years ago I did a timelapse with a 1/2 inch minicam and wideangle lens. It damaged the ccd.(the only damage I have ever done to a ccd. The damage was in the form of a slight pink trace across the ccd where the sun tracked across the ccd.
 
Why? Because the sun was focused into a very very small pinprick by the wide angle lens and the exposure was for the ambient light (the cityscape scene) and not the light source itself (the sun)