solar viewing.

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by ving

thanks louie and houghy (we need a dewey (oh hang on, thats me (librarian))).
I tries some projection in my olde 60mm using that method to line up. it worked but i ended up melting my ep!!!

I'll be a dewey

You could always put a sundial on the scope and turn it into a quazzie GOTO

(Don't forget to allow for daylight saving)

[iceman (Mike)]

sifn't thank me Ving! I wrote the longest!

[ving (David)]

I actually didnt read yours mike... sorry

thankyou for your most valuable input
so higher in the sky is better huh. I thought that logially it would be. I have seen you design for the cell and it looks good. I am thinking that i may make use of some 2mm mdf sheets that i have sitting around tho... we'll see i guess. i hope to get started on the weekend but we are pretty busy on saturday and may have visitors on sunday.

[RAJAH235]

David, if I may suggest an extra safety factor. Use some masking tape or similar to hold the mask onto the tube. Better safe than sorry..... L.

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

Here's a way to make a solar finder that I posted some time ago:

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None of the dimensions are critical.

Take an 8 - 12 inch piece of flat steel or aluminum which is nice and stiff, mine is an inch wide. at each end, bend a piece of the metal about 1 inch long up at a right angle.

Into one of the bent up pieces drill a hole about 1/16th to 1/8th dia. centered in the bent up area. That's it !!!

Now, mount this thing on your tube with the hole facing towards the sky end of your telescope and align it with the scope's axis just like you would a finder scope.

I use the piggy back screws on my scope rings.

In use, move the scope until the light beam coming through the hole is centered on the other bent up portion of the device. I got fancy and painted a little Bulls eye on it. You aim this thing by watching the side with the Bulls eye on it. As you get reasonably close, the shadow of the opposite end starts covering the bulls eye and this is followed shortly by the light beam, when it's centered, the sun is in your field of view.



By the way, Coronado sells a nice, fancy version of this for about $ 90.- I believe, for their Solar scopes.


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[ving (David)]

hi folks, been out solar observing and it is good
I'll post a pic of my full aperture cell in the next coupla days. the views, for the uninitiated are the same as the pic to the left of the forum cept I get more detail. click on the sun pic then on the3 small orange sun pic to get the big sun pic... thats what I get

I swear you can just about see the spots and such change while you watch!