Our star

[VIGER]

THE SUN

Our star. Coronado telescope and Canon 300D
From my backyard.

Cheers

Michel

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m271/MLaframboise/Astro%20Q/NotreSoleil-1.jpg

[Pricey]

Holy hell, I've never seen the Sun like that before... How was it not too bright?

[jgrussell]

Terrific shot. I can't imagine what the filters must be like to capture that.

[PackingMyBags]

do i see a solar flare at high noon?

[SteveInNZ]

Very nice. It's rather boring with just a white light filter at the moment with no spots. It's nice that you get to see something happening in Ha. Nicely finished too.

Steve.

[DrFil]

wowser, that is awesome

[chris.bailey]

Very nice. Could be called "proms at high noon" :-)

[ckckevin]

Super good capture. I guess the sun doesn't look as "hot" anymore...

[Adrena1in]

I do love these sort of solar shots. My filters just make it look white. Is it possible to buy filters for a normal telescope to get views like this, or do you have to buy a specific solar-scope?

[Celestron]

Very nice ! Didn't know this particular scope would show as nice an image as this but it sure does !

[VIGER]

Thanks guys.

It's from a borrowed scope by the way. A 90mm HLapha Coronado is to expensive for me. << proms at high noon >> Good title.

[GPFocussed]

WOW! What an impressive shot!!!

[ejicon]

This is excellent. Better than any school text book I've ever seen.

[MikeFairbanks]

To look at the sun, use an arc welder's helmet (not gas welder).

[Celestron]

To look at the sun, use an arc welder's helmet (not gas welder).


Read THIS ARTICLE (http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/sun/3309106.html) before you start recomending any welders hat for Solar Viewing !! You wouldn't want to feel bad if someone looses their eye sight over wrong information . NOT RECOMMENDED WITH BINOCULARS OR SCOPES !!

[VIGER]

More info: http://www.coronadofilters.com/safety.html

[Adrena1in]

Read THIS ARTICLE (http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/sun/3309106.html) before you start recomending any welders hat for Solar Viewing !! You wouldn't want to feel bad if someone looses their eye sight over wrong information . NOT RECOMMENDED WITH BINOCULARS OR SCOPES !!

Well pointed out. Plus welder's mask glass will still simply give a white disk when used to look through. I'm interested in a filter that I can put on my scope to give the sort of views of the sun that VIGER posted. I don't think I've ever seen them...only dedicated solar scopes. (Perhaps I'll just get one of those.)

[VIGER]

Baader the german company makes film that you can put in front of you lens. This will give you what they call a white picture. To see the proms you will need an HAlpha filter and an energy filter. Lunt or Coronado makes such scopes. These special scopes are very expensive.

Also and I forgot so say that the picture above is made of two photos. To grab the surface detail the etalon of the scope as to be tune to a specific frequency and to make the proms another picture as to be taken using another frequency. I had merged the two to get on this picture.

Should you decide to use the baader filter make sure it's well secured on you lens. You might loose the curtain shutter on you DSLR otherwise. The sun is that strong. Immagine an eye!

A Canon 400mm lens will give some suprising results.

Play safe,

Michel

[Harm]

über fantastic...nice capture!

[VIGER]

Danken

[theague]

That is so friggin cool. What are the lighter yellow areas around the lower portion of the star?

[VIGER]

I don't know. Anyone knows? ???

[casteel]

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