Altocumulus

1 hour ago, Hughsie said:

Hello Geoff.

Firstly thank you for your kind words.

As to the gear, I use a double stacked 60mm Lunt solar scope, a ZWO ASI174mm camera with tilt adaptor and different barlows or Powermates. With the exception of the full disc which was just the camera and scope, the remaining images had the Altair Astro 3x Barlow in the image train.

Thanks Hugh, much appreciated.  Apart from the DS, a similar setup to mine! 

I, obviously,  need to practice more! Still waiting for the sun to arrive today! Rather opaque altostratus and altocumulus up above.

I've enquired about a DS filter - 60-90 days, whilst Quark chromo is 2-3 weeks!

Decisions upon decisons!

May one ask what you used for these fine gems - certainly beats mine hands down and over!

300k miles!

In time-honoured measurement, I  make that nearly 1600 M4 motorways 🤣

Yep, they be newton's  rings. 

Can you slightly tilt the cam in its holder?

I'd be inclined to use the normal apperture for a while, see how that goes.

Astonishingly good!

You're making me consider the Quark route, instead of adding a DS to my Lunt LS60!

Advantage with the Quark ( Combo ) would be I have a few 'scopes it could be used on, especially a 102 refractor and a couple of Maks ( though DERFs can be a bit pricey on the Maks ).

However I've yet to see a DIY option for remote operation of the Quark, whilst a DS unit can be catered for....

3 hours ago, Steve Ward said:

Great images ... super detail in there ... 

But you already posted them on Friday ... !

Ah, but on Friday it was said a quark was involved....

Is that the Sun?

Forgotten what it looks like!  Even on the Western Isles last couple of weeks it was only a fleeting glance we had. Not much better since we got home.

Good capture, though.....

Tempt me not! This hobby is pricey enough as it is!

DSOs in the daytime!?

By crikey, I'd just be happy with a filter that could see through clouds.....

What an enviable location! Better than mine and well shot Scott

Nae bad for all that! At least you have sun, it's been mostly cloudy these last few days on Lewis.

Good detail on the SS!

19 hours ago, PeterW said:

Just use an optical cleaning material without any abrasive, should get the middle looking better. I’d drop Lunt solar systems EU an email, I got a spare sent over for free even though mine was out of warranty. (If I remember correctly). I’m in the UK. Was a few years ago.

 

Peter

On a couple of mine the damage extended into the glass itself.

Bresser Germany is usually kind enough to send spares out - does anyone understand why they fail and, obviously, there's no alternative. What exactly is its function - would we know if we didn't use the bg filter?

I seem to have to replace mine yearly! Kept through the winter months in the cool and dry - don't know what else I  could do! 

Night 6-7th June 2022

I need a better location

Cracking detail. That's a keeper I reckon.

Very nice Stu.

I mean that granite looking ball on the table

Time lapse

Last night Glendale App reported more than a few sightings. If anyone else uses the app, do you know how to add late reports of NLCs?

Looking Northwest from my location I suffer from a lot of sunglow, hence this image isn't brilliant - you can see slightly clearer on the time lapse. North is just on the edge of the forest in from the right on the image. Aurora cam setup - ZWO 178 MC run under AllSkyEye software.

Great detail!

Pop into Solarchatforum, there's likely plenty of suggestions available there.

12 minutes ago, iwols said:

thanks for that but just to clarify ive just had a reply from ts optics stating not to use this scope for solar 

And yet, at least one person is. David, though, makes a valid point.

Looks like the mice have been eating the edges - it must be made of cheese!

Seriously good image....