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Great information Mike. I've been planning to turn this into a big event at my daughter's new school. We'll see what they want to get involved with a bit later, but I'm hoping they will build projectors, go into the history etc. Hopefully follow up with an astronomy night the following Friday (good thing it's midwinter, I can keep the momentum up).
My plan is to have my ETX for white light viewing, and my new Lunt with a GStar or similar attached to record and stream the event to the school. It won't be SOHO, but it should be good nonetheless. If I can have the setup uninterrupted I might be able to process images out of it later, but that's a secondary goal.
The trick will be the polar alignment, given that I won't be able to set it up ultra-accurately the night before and expect the scope to still be there the next morning, unless I arrive really early in the morning to do it.
Then maybe Cairns later in the year? We'll see.
I'll leave the 18" dob at home for this event, I think it would set something on fire.
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