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Pictures from Italy


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I've just come back from 2 weeks away, we drove to Switzerland first where I visited a work colleague and we chatted cell signalling for 2 days whilst walking along the shore of Lake Geneva (I have a very patient hubby).

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We then drove on to Italy to visit Astrovale (see Solarchat) http://www.amun-ra.org/index.asp as a friend he was extremely kind to let us stay with him and have fun with his amazing telescope. More photos are on my Flickr site if telescope viewing is your thing https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexandra4/
So here are some sunsets/rises first 

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Now for some hydrogen alphas from the first day where seeing was a challenge. Taken with the Solarscope DSF-100 / Grasshopper 3 / Luca's 3x telecentric (all images are from my scope by the way)

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and I have just started day 2 where seeing was better and here are the Calcium K at 100mm (Lunt) + Baader K line and 3x barlow / Grasshopper 3

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I'm also interested to know which colour you prefer (need to take a vote).
More will follow but I have a very busy week at work (at a conference for a couple of days) but I may get round to it at the weekend.
Kind regards
Alexandra
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Thought you'd been a bit quiet of late :)

What a stunning location for an observatory.  And it looks huge, even allowing for the distortion of the fish-eye lens.

Definitely prefer the "blue" for the CaK images, though they look stunning in any colour :)

James

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Amazing pics, Alexandra :)

I must get me an obsy and location like Astrovale's! Beautiful, looked like an amazing horizon? I have chimney pots to the North and South. And also to the East and West. Straight up is quite good though :grin:

I like the orange/yellow best but they are both lovely so it's close for me. Nice to see some non-purple CaK.

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