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Offline CptTrips

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Season's Greetings and Solar Gazing
« on: December 24, 2008, 09:38:34 PM »
 Merry Christmas all!  I hope this season find you and yours healthy and happy!

Free time and clear skies finally coincided long enough for me to try my new (pre-owned) Hydrogen-Alpha Solar Telescope.  There wasn't much surface activity (no sunspots) but there were a few nice prominances along the edges.  Here is one I tried to image.  It came out pretty good, but I still felt like I was seeing a little finer detail at the eyepieces.

http://jasonirby.zenfolio.com/p586368176/h18098811#h18098811


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Re: Season's Greetings and Solar Gazing
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2008, 11:12:13 PM »
Wow, sweet pic.  That's pretty cool having a scope you can check out the sun with, whats a setup like that run?
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Re: Season's Greetings and Solar Gazing
« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2008, 11:53:02 PM »
Great pic sir. Wish it was a larger resolution; would make a great desktop.

Quote from: trax1 on December 24, 2008, 11:12:13 PM
whats a setup like that run?

http://www.scopecity.com/detail.cfm?ProductID=197
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Re: Season's Greetings and Solar Gazing
« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2008, 12:17:27 AM »
Sweet looking photo there. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Season's Greetings and Solar Gazing
« Reply #4 on: December 25, 2008, 11:30:56 AM »
That's amazing, thanks much for the picture!

Oh and Merry Chrismas to you and yours.
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Re: Season's Greetings and Solar Gazing
« Reply #5 on: December 25, 2008, 11:54:17 AM »
Great gallery.
How many go in the bin for each good one you get? Merry Christmas and have a great Hogmanay.


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Re: Season's Greetings and Solar Gazing
« Reply #6 on: December 25, 2008, 12:01:47 PM »
Quote from: REP0MAN on December 24, 2008, 11:53:02 PM
Great pic sir. Wish it was a larger resolution; would make a great desktop.

http://www.scopecity.com/detail.cfm?ProductID=197

Yeah, next time I'm going to do a mosaic to get the whole disk.  This was just a quick test.


Mine is a Lunt 60mm doublestacked.

http://usa.luntsolarsystems-europe.com/pro_info.php?ebene1=48&id=18679&catchoice1=

If anyone was wanting to get their feet wet in h-alpha solar observing I would recommend a "Coronado PST".  Its a great little scope that will show you prominances and some surface detail.  Fits on a camera tripod, and for $500 its probably the best bang for the buck.  I had one and enjoyed it for a couple of years before deciding to upgrade t a Lunt.

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Re: Season's Greetings and Solar Gazing
« Reply #7 on: December 25, 2008, 12:18:44 PM »
Thats a pretty awsome hobby. :aok I could spend hours looking at astronomy pics.
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