Transit Preparation - swapped out the 14" Meade for the 127ED and the 60mm lunt SBS
Well with some help from Scott and Al i swapped over the 14" for the sbs setup with the Meade 127ED and the lunt. now i will be honest - i haven't done much in the way of solar work - and i would consider myself in newbie territory there. So i have the 60mm lunt with a double stack option and a DMK41, and a 127Ed, with a thousand oaks solar filter and a cooled 40D. Can run both on the one PC and i have an option of running a DMK21 on an ed80. So i have all the gear on and absolutely no knowledge of using them properly and only a few weeks to learn.
from the "test images" i need to clean the diagonal and the DMK41 as well as the thousand oaks filter. and the corrector of the 127. I haven't used that scope since astrofest last year.
i spent this morning aligning the two scopes and getting centralised images in both, then tried to focus - man that is hard the seeing changes things so much
That's awesome Houghy, the best I am hoping for is a baader film home brew filter over an AZ 60mm.
yeah i have that as well as a backup - or if i have to resort to a camera lens and travel - which i hope i wont but the forecast looks like rain and cloud is predicted but i hope that is not the case
I never thought I'd ever do any solar/planetary imaging, and, I'm kicking myself now. Moreso because it's the only one we'll see in our lifetimes.
I've spent a while creating different fields of view (in Starry Night Pro Plus 6) with the two scopes that I have, with and without POWERMATE and the Takahashi Extender-Q. The FSQ-106N with the Extender-Q 1.6x and a full frame camera looks like a wonderful combination.
with the weather forecast i may just end up removing it off the titan and use it on the eq6 somewhere dry and clear.
one thought i had to keep the sun centralised is using Al sheeny's collimator overlay on the APT capture screen wit hthe crosshairs on - so if it drifts you can re-centre it exactly
Nice set up and it looks like you’ve got all angles covered!
Cheers
Dennis
i still have a few more Dennis, but they rely on my contingency plan i have spare baader films a C11 and g11, astrotrac's x2 and video 36 x optical video camera for the really desperate situation
I never thought I'd ever do any solar/planetary imaging, and, I'm kicking myself now. Moreso because it's the only one we'll see in our lifetimes.
I've spent a while creating different fields of view (in Starry Night Pro Plus 6) with the two scopes that I have, with and without POWERMATE and the Takahashi Extender-Q. The FSQ-106N with the Extender-Q 1.6x and a full frame camera looks like a wonderful combination.
the seeing changes things so much
(That's a technical term!
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