Images of the Sun, our local star, at a range of wavelengths with specialist solar telescopes. Imaging tutorials, solar bits and pieces for sale, talks and outreach with the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project CBSAP.
This is a lovely scope for Ha, both imaging and also visually, high light throughput means a higher magnification can be used, and the 60mm aperture gives a notable improvement in terms of resolution compared to the smaller scopes. A very nice compact and lightweight setup!
Taken with the OTA from the Coronado SM60 and the Lunt 1.25" wedge with the 430nm G-Band filter. First go of this as a white light setup to be used as a portable setup. Pleased with the potential of it as a patrol scope!
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!
Testing out a new scope to the arsenal, I bought a Coronado SM40 and then double stacked it with another SM40 etalon I had. Kinda pleased with the results, but I know I can get a more constrasty double stack, so there is still some tweaks to do. This was taken prime focus with the zwo183mm camera.
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...
