The Sun in Ha, 05 Jan 2018

well, it's been a productive summer holiday in a number of ways. Got a few things done around the place that had been outstanding for a while. One of them was to finally put my HEQ5 PRO GOTO telescope mount to use ... it's only taken one and a half years
Below a couple of images of the mount with the Lunt LS60 THA solar scope mounted to it

Also couple of images from today 05 Jan 2018.
One very large prominence and several smallish filaments

Davenn wrote in post #18534631
well, it's been a productive summer holiday in a number of ways. Got a few things done around the place that had been outstanding for a while. One of them was to finally put my HEQ5 PRO GOTO telescope mount to use ... it's only taken one and a half years
Below a couple of images of the mount with the Lunt LS60 THA solar scope mounted to it

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Dave

Hey, Dave - are you sure that mount can handle the load???? Looks good though. And produces some impressive images.

Roy A. Rust wrote in post #18534648
Hey, Dave - are you sure that mount can handle the load???? Looks good though. And produces some impressive images.

hahaha .... dunno, may be pushing the envelope

Thanks for the compliments, still just doing single frame shots
The mount is just sitting in the driveway and isn't accurately polar aligned
I live in rental accommodation so it is likely to never be permanently fixed or aligned
There is a little bit of drift but easily corrected with the hand controller

BUT it's so much better than the camera tripod for adj. tracking and the image doesn't bounce all over the place when focussing

Dave