Proms today 22nd Aug.

[John W]

Fri 22nd Aug, 11.30 am. Saw some nice prominences on the Sun's eastern limb today. This single exposure image was taken thru a Solarmax II 60 mm scope with a canon 550d camera. Thanks for viewing. John W.

[NeilW]

Nice shot John. I've just purchased a Solarmax II 60mm filter set to attach to my Skywatcher ED80. The weather has only allowed me to do some visual obs since I got it, but I'm interested to see what I can do with my Canon 70D. What exposure/ISO did you use?

[PeterEde]

Ok I want to do this too. What and where to get what I need?
To fit skywatcher ED80

[NeilW]

Hi Peter,

It's not a cheap excercise. I bought the filter/blocking filter set from B&H Photo Video in the USA: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/734030-REG/Coronado_SMF60_15_SolarMax_II_60_mm .html

which works out to about $2K AUD with postage. Unfortunately I then discovered that, while the site says there are adapter mounts ("New Product: Not Yet Available") they do not and will not exist for the ED80. Meade apparently have no intention of making these commercially. I had to have one especially machined, with some assistance from Merlin (Ken) on these forums. That cost an extra $185. Had I realised that at the time I probably would have just bought a Solarmax scope.

[John W]

Hi, The prom picture was taken at 1/100 sec at ISO400, f5.6 in colour. With some post processing. Cheers, John W.

[Derek Klepp]

Hope you had alook today John some nice proms.