Cloud meant I missed the very start and very end of the eclipse, but I did get the bit in the middle on the whole, which, is the important bit I guess. It was my first opportunity to test the double stack on my SM60, it was literally setup for the first time 30 minutes before the start of the eclipse. It seems to work well though, and the next step with it will be to see if the double stack etalon benefits from the compression mod, which worked really well with the primary etalon of this setup. 500 frame exposures were taken, with a 3 second gap between, resulting in an animation of over 200 total frames. Setup was the Coronado DS60 at f11 with the ZWO183mm camera.
Monday, 31 March 2025
Partial Solar Eclipse 29th March
Cloud meant I missed the very start and very end of the eclipse, but I did get the bit in the middle on the whole, which, is the important bit I guess. It was my first opportunity to test the double stack on my SM60, it was literally setup for the first time 30 minutes before the start of the eclipse. It seems to work well though, and the next step with it will be to see if the double stack etalon benefits from the compression mod, which worked really well with the primary etalon of this setup. 500 frame exposures were taken, with a 3 second gap between, resulting in an animation of over 200 total frames. Setup was the Coronado DS60 at f11 with the ZWO183mm camera.