
Monday, 31 March 2025
Partial Solar Eclipse 29th March

Saturday, 22 March 2025
Sunday, 16 March 2025
Monday, 10 March 2025
Sunday Sunshine 9th March
Sundays skies were hazy, very hazy, but with variable transparency which made imaging difficult. The seeing was pretty decent though, and I think I have achieved my best resolution yet with the Coronado SM60.
Absolutely love this scope, it has an etalon with good finesse, and after the compression mod is completely even across the disk.



Sunday, 9 March 2025
Ha FD Coronado DS40 - 8th March
Ha Sunshine with the Coronado SM60 8th March
G-Band Sunshine 8th March
Monday, 24 February 2025
Saturday Sunshine With The Coronado SM60 22nd February
I bought a Coronado SM60 in immaculate condition just at the end of last year. I did a compression mod on the etalon as it was slightly off band, but now I have one of the best quality etalons I have ever owned - so pleased! First off the full disk taken with a Coranado cemax 2x barlow nosepiece on the snout of the zwo183mm camera.
Next up for a bit of a closer look at the regions of interest I swapped in the zwo290mm camera with the 2x cemax barlow in normal mode.
I really am pleased with the performance and portability of this scope, it has lots of potential!





Full Disk Sunshine With The Coronado DS40 22nd February
Sunday, 27 October 2024
Saturday Sunshine 19th October
Testing out a 'new' travelling rig, the palm sized Sharpstar EDPH50 refactor, a very nice little triplet. This has the benefit of being able to use for a bit of lunar too as we head into autumn.
It performs really well on the sun with the little 1.25" Lunt wedge visually, and also for imaging with the Baader continuum filter. Next step is to try the G-Band filter for imaging...




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