Sunday 30 March 2014

Saturdays CaK Closeups 29th March

It was rather hazy yesterday, and the haze was also fairly fast moving which also then made the transparency variable to say the least.  However I was keen to try out the 100mm Tal refractor as had just fitted my new Moonlite focuser to it; this is a massive improvement on the stock focuser that comes with this telescope.  I'm still getting a ghost image with this telescope which overlays the disk partially which is frustrating.  I had originally thought this was from the beloptik tri-band ERF I was using internally in the scope, but this is clearly not the case as these images were taken using the Lunt solar wedge as the ERF.  It must be a result of how I have the filters ordered in the stack.  Something for me to ponder!!