The Official Imaging the Sun Thread

Jeff USN Photog 72-76 wrote in post #19192673
do you mean the holly bush? plus you can see the large shopping mall beyond the second house

I do not see the shopping mall but what I am asking about is this pipe thingie and snow covered platform with my arrows pointing to it!!!!

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Had a break in the clouds for the first time in a long time. There's an interesting prom field where one detached and lifted off.

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Feb 11th 2021,

The large prom on the north eastern limb persists and the small unnamed active region with plage has filaments in a nice chain that has rotated the disc. Presented in hydrogen alpha and a disc in calcium k to show the lower chromosphere.

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Inspeqtor wrote in post #19192711
I do not see the shopping mall but what I am asking about is this pipe thingie and snow covered platform with my arrows pointing to it!!!!

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ah ha, That is the solar panel for my night lights by my observing platform


also Malvuex is that a Celestron 120?

Jeff USN Photog 72-76 wrote in post #19194838
ah ha, That is the solar panel for my night lights by my observing platform

also Malvuex is that a Celestron 120?

Yessir, I use the Celestron 120mm F8.3 as 120mm, 100mm and 60mm depending on seeing conditions and the wavelength I image. For calcium, I commonly mask it to 60mm F16.67 for a full disc. For general HA imaging, you can see my orange mask above, making it 100mm F10 for sampling on my filter system and my 2.9um pixels of my camera.

I use the 120mm achromatic doublet in my "bad seeing" months like right now (December through March). As it warms up my seeing will be sub-arc-second again and I'll go back to using my 150mm refractor and when seeing is great, my 200mm.

Very nice. When my seeing is great I will go to my 120mm, I gave my Celestron 120 to a friend when I got the Skywatcher 120. But commonly I use the Lunt ED102 and sometimes have to drop to the 80mm.

I would say 90% of the time I am using the 102. I can only see the sun between 10:30 and 12:30 and over a house and a factory and I live 300 feet from a major mall so the air is always turbulent.

I suppose I should just use masks on the 120 but I have a love for scopes and 90% plus of the time the 102 is on the mount

Jeff USN Photog 72-76 wrote in post #19195209
Very nice. When my seeing is great I will go to my 120mm, I gave my Celestron 120 to a friend when I got the Skywatcher 120. But commonly I use the Lunt ED102 and sometimes have to drop to the 80mm.

I would say 90% of the time I am using the 102. I can only see the sun between 10:30 and 12:30 and over a house and a factory and I live 300 feet from a major mall so the air is always turbulent.

I suppose I should just use masks on the 120 but I have a love for scopes and 90% plus of the time the 102 is on the mount

Agreed, I love just having several scopes. Each one has masks now.

My typical solar rotation is:

80mm F5 (with a 40mm mask; 40mm F10)
80mm F7.5 (with 60mm mask; 60mm F10)
120mm F8.3 (with 100mm mask; 100mm f10; 60mm mask, 60mm F16.67)
150mm F8 (with 120mm mask, 120mm F10; and often with a 1.25x amplifier to be 150mm F10 when seeing is good)
200mm F10 (native, but can be F7 with reducer as needed)

I really want to rebuild a new observatory with two mounts so I can have two setups at all times ready to go. As it is, for imaging at least, I keep two scopes mounted at the same time for most of my imaging, in a piggy back setup. But sometimes I'll just go with one scope if its super windy or something.

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Very nice set up I am envious, someday I hope to have an observatory, for now I have a tripod Skywatcher EQ6-R with a Telegizmo 365 cover on it and a plastic patio box to keep my gear

Jeff USN Photog 72-76 wrote in post #19195237
Very nice set up I am envious, someday I hope to have an observatory, for now I have a tripod Skywatcher EQ6-R with a Telegizmo 365 cover on it and a plastic patio box to keep my gear

TG365's are great! I used to do that through hurricanes here in Florida. I started with a pier out in a 5 acre field here in Florida with the mount and a TG365 cover. I kept the rest in a plastic bin next to it and ran off batteries for a long time. Worked fine. I only later built an observatory around this pier (really its just a shed I built on a floating deck with a roll off roof) because I was keeping more scopes out there, more things, and it was just a convenience thing and then I wired it up for power.

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MalVeauX wrote in post #19195220
Agreed, I love just having several scopes. Each one has masks now.

Just curious Marty,

How many scopes do you own if you do not mind sharing that info.

MalVeauX wrote in post #19195220
I really want to rebuild a new observatory with two mounts so I can have two setups at all times ready to go. As it is, for imaging at least, I keep two scopes mounted at the same time for most of my imaging, in a piggy back setup. But sometimes I'll just go with one scope if its super windy or something.

Please keep us updated if you actually do start to build another observatory Marty!!

MalVeauX wrote in post #19195220

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Very best,

What is your mount attached to the scope you are showing here. I assume you have it somehow anchored to the cement block, am I correct on that?

Thank you!

Inspeqtor wrote in post #19195300
Just curious Marty,

How many scopes do you own if you do not mind sharing that info.

Please keep us updated if you actually do start to build another observatory Marty!!

What is your mount attached to the scope you are showing here. I assume you have it somehow anchored to the cement block, am I correct on that?

Thank you!

Hey Charles,

Oh I have tons of scopes. It's probably better to just mention the ones I'm actively using. I rotate 5 telescopes just for solar work alone. And another 4 scopes or so, just for night time stuff of various larger apertures. Anything from 40mm aperture to 250mm aperture currently. The beauty of building an observatory is to have it all setup and ready to go at all times. I have 4 primary mounts that I use so I can have several things going at once, and three of them can hold more than one scope, so I can accommodate lots of observers when doing outreach or just setting up with the family (takes no time since its already there, setup, ready to go).

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Forest Fire Smoke Sun......

Two AR's on the face of the disc, AR's 2803 and new 2804 with a new small sunspot forming. And still a persistent prominence on the south western limb.

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Feb 23rd 2021,

Two great AR's with some spots (small ones, but still decent) and a great big prominence series on the limb.

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And some wide field of those regions, and full discs to show the scales.

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