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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2014 22:24:11 GMT
The latest huge sunspot group has migrated around the limb and is in full view. Here are a couple of shots I took this afternoon with my Mallincam Jr. PRO. First is with a Lunt LS60THa/B600. The second is through a 90mm Orion ShortTube refractor with no fine focus, just a terrestrial and occasional lunar scope I made a Baader filter for. Can't quite squeeze good focus out of it.
Good way to end holiday vacation time.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2014 0:06:57 GMT
Great shots Jim would love to own one of those Ha filters.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2014 0:18:37 GMT
Great shots Jim would love to own one of those Ha filters. Yes very nice Jim and something else to spend more money on... a Solar scope! I think I'm gonna take up another sport this astronomy malarkey is costing the earth!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2014 3:50:48 GMT
To paraphrase a comment made of many avocations, astronomy opens a hole in the sky into which we are free to throw an unlimited amount of money.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2014 4:34:44 GMT
Great shots Jim would love to own one of those Ha filters. Filters are one way to go, but I'm using a Lunt LS60THa/B600 telescope. About two years ago they had briefly dropped the price and fortuitously, I got hit with a healthy profit sharing bonus from work, and my best friend, Susan, who also happens to be my spouse of 45 years, out of the blue suggested I spend the bonus on something astronomy related. Since I had a 90mm refractor, a 10" SCT, and an 18" truss dob, my only missing niche was solar although I had white light filter for the SCT. So, with the sale and the funds hitting in the same month, I bought the H-Alpha scope although now I wish I would have gone for a bit more aperture and B1200 blocking filter. I have used a 152mm Lunt one afternoon, and operated another person's 90mm double stacked Coronado at a public event, but the 60mm does well enough. I later built my own white light filter for the 90mm; for about $50 I built five filters for various sized telescopes, four for the National Park Service's spotting scopes at the Grand Canyon for the annular eclipse and one for my 90mm to go along with the 10" and the Lunt. We had over 3000 people in one parking lot, and over 30 astronomers set up for the eclipse.
I hope Solar Max hangs on another year or two; don't know what it will be like when the sun goes back to boring. Probably a lot of used solar scopes on the market at greatly reduced prices in another two years!
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Post by Dragon Man on Jan 6, 2014 8:27:16 GMT
Good captures Jim. The Lunt give a great result
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2014 22:16:35 GMT
Thanks for posting Jim and showing me what I can't see with my Lunt. One day the clouds will go away and the sun will shine again. sigh!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2014 2:57:41 GMT
Thanks, Alan. I guess that's the price for having Monty Python, Black Adder, and Midsommer Murders. We here is the desert are blessed with an average of 275 clear nights, and many more partly cloudy, each year. The H-Alpha was a Lunt 60mm; I've seen some Lunt 90mm and 152mm images that are hard to stop gazing at, some in CaK with spots twice the size of H-Alpha. Some of the best white light images I've seen has been on Stargazers' Lounge: stargazerslounge.com/forum/92-imaging-solar/Best of luck getting some sky to see through. Last night at Jovian opposition here, Ganymede was naked eye for a few hours in hills above 1500m altitude!
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Post by johnno on Jan 8, 2014 11:43:08 GMT
I've only tried Solar a couple of times with a white filter and captured it with a micro 3/4 camera then played about with the image in photoshop, next time i'll give the cam a go at it to see how it turns out. www.flickr.com/photos/tfc475/with/9515921115/
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2014 3:02:36 GMT
Isn't it amazing what 10 years of technology has brought? Equipment, software, I can remember, it seems like yesterday, that if you wanted a picture of a DSO you had to hyper your film, you had your own dark room, and it took some bit of luck to get the beginning of the processing started. Now, watch the weather, curse the weather, find a sucker hole, point, shoot, APOD.
The photos on your link look "friendly". Very inviting to a rookie at this adventure.
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