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Originally Posted by yoda776
Can't wait to try mine out. We might have to compare notes Doug.  |
I spent about 30 minutes with mine today - literally the first time Melbourne's seen the Sun in a week. Immediately impressed with the improved contrast on the solar disk - features were much more evident and interesting. I had read that prominences were fainter in a double stack, but I didn't find that at all.
Now, I'm not an experienced solar observer (at all - just beginning) and need to do some reading on Halpha observing to understand the features I'm viewing, but the double stack showed a lot more detail. I didn't have to do a lot of tuning - it more or less popped right out.
I dialed up the Learmonth image on
http://halpha.nso.edu (Gong) and compared the view in the eyepiece - I could see almost every feature on the Gong image.
I imagine the views getting better when the sun is higher in the sky during the warmer months? Quite addictive, and just SO easy to set up and observe during the daytime