Hi all,
luckily I had some sun to look at for about 60 minutes today, and overall pretty happy. Yesterday I cobbled together something to help me get the mount pointed in the right direction (in my images) as my southerly view is blocked to about 50 degrees and today, for the first time, when I asked Synscan to point at the sun it worked and tracked it for an hour with only minimal corrections needed to keep it centred.
Maybe I wasn't explaining things well as I'm still new to all of the terminology. I have added some more pictures and hope it's clearer. Basically, I screwed in the 1.25" eyepiece holder backwards into the 2" to 1.25" nosepiece. I then screwed my filter into a an eyepiece barrel and inserted it.
It worked quite well as per my first ever pics of the sun. one without filter and one with solar continuum filter. I has a very short window to set up and test due to the clouds and I understand the pics aren't the best quality as far as focus and exposure settings (I'm actually quite happy anyway as they are my first ever pics with the scope
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From what I can see/understand - and I am happy to be corrected - doing it this way wouldn't limit my field of view any more than using a 1.25" t-adapter I had envisaged using in the first place.
Cheers
Mick