Nigella Bryant

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Fitting was fairly easy but had to drill centre hole and extend it with a bolt to attach the motor. All working with the usb unit.

This is what I'm seeing using the zwo camera.

Probably not sturdy enough but thanks for the thought.

I use a badder cak filter which is really white light and granulation is easy to see but it's only used for imaging. To broad a band range for calcium k line.

Clouded out here forecast not good for me till the weekend, I blame myself for buying a new telescope, 🤣

Thanks peps, I was thinking side by side with one in the centre. I align my double scopes with one currently in guiding rings the other in the clamp. I guess two scopes could be in guide rings and the other clamped directly. Pic added.

Thanks Rusted, appreciate your input.

You'd definitely need an erf if over 80mm. On the plus side you don't need expensive ed or triplet scopes. Achromatic scopes are fine. I use achromatic scopes albeit for cak. Essentially you're observing/imaging in one wave length and mono. I've used a cheap £100 pound 70mm achromatic for solar and have recently bought a cheap 100mm achromatic. I use an 80ed for White light with Hershel wedge.

Hi all, what's the best way to stack my three solar scopes on my neq6 mount. I've seen a triple dovetail bar running at £400. Can I buy a long losmandy dovetail bar and fit vixen clamps to that? Each scope runs at 4kg so weight for the neq6 won't be an issue at 20kg. I'd probably be running at 14kg with three zwo camera's. Currently I'm running two scopes on a double dovetail bar. It's all mounted on a concrete piller so is very stable. Thanks for looking.

Solar filters need to be secured to any objective lens be that binoculars or bino. You can easily boil your eyeballs. Elastic bands can easily flip off. Just be really careful you've only one set of eyes. Personally I'd go the whole hog and make a solar filter for your 127 mak.

It is a long one, reminds me of the old fracs of yesteryear's.

This arrived today, 100mm f9.8 achromatic for the new Lunt b1800 Ca-k line module. Really well packed. Sorry for the coming clouds.

Thanks Dave, I was nervous about buying it but first light showed me I was lucky. I've been very fortunate with my solar equipment.

Thanks Jeremy, appreciated.

Thanks, appreciated. Nice to know.

Thanks, that's really good to know. I thought it was the first time I used it. To be honest I didn't know there was an issue with cak filters the same as in ha in the quality.

Hi all, could only get some Ca-K line imaging today as the clouds were fast moving. 70mm AR stopped down to 60mm. Processed in Autostakker3, ImPPG and Photoshop. Some lovely proms in Ca-K line today.

Who needs million dollar satellites, lol.

That's great, you'll be pleased with the better contrast and surface details with the double stack. It's like chalk and cheese. Hopefully you'll get lots of viewing of our nearest star over the spring and summer months.

Lol, you'd posted the same thing four times originally 🤣 just thought it was funny, kind of thing I'd do.

I see you're determined to get your point over Merlin66, lol 🤣😆🤣 Thanks though, it's appreciated.

Yes it can only get better. I too didn't realize that the quality of these filters were hit and miss. One more reason it was good to check it yesterday even if the sky was rubbish. I've been fortunate to get a good HA and Ca-K. Even my badder K-Line filter is a good one. Just been fortunate. I still find it incredible though given the price of these things.

Thanks David, yeah, that's me all covered with HA, WL and now Ca-K, lol.

Hi Luke, yes it's easy to focus although I use electronic focusers.