Solar viewing/Imaging

[Chubster]

Hi People.

Right wanna have a go at the above. Can you tell me exactly what I need and what to do. Dont want to be making anything if poss, would rather purpose built solar filters etc.

What do you think the results will be like with the C8.

Cheers

Chubs

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Adam has C8 solar filters on his website for £55 (if I'm looking at the right thing). That should be all you need I think, but give him a call and I'm sure he'll sort you out.

Or grab a PST as there is nothing visible on the sun in white light (and very little in Ha!) at the moment.

Captain Chaos

[Kai]

Second that,the suns about exiting as paint drying at the moment (there are a few proms though).

Adrian you will be able to observe sunspots when there visible and you can get some good detail if you barlow a toucam at f20.

I now use my Zs66 for white light obs and a Pst for a more interesting view

[lunator]

Yep the Sun in white light is pretty bland at the moment.

My film cost £10 and the 2 cardboard rings costs me nothing and took 5 minutes to make.

Cheers

ian

[proflight2000]

Or even some solar film and a crochet ring, dont forget to cover any finders by the way, I learned the hard way, I had my scope covered well, then realised afterwards that id left the finder uncovered and it burned the cross hairs off, not on the skywatcher id add.

This is a snap shot I took of a quarter of the sun using a toucam, must say id agree it isnt very exciting, it makes you want one of the nice solar viewers.

[themos]

The one thing that one could do with this kind of image is measure any squashing of the sun sphere. Has anyone tried it?

[Macavity]

Trying to think of something to do during the day - Beyond the necessary(!), I came across:

http://home.freeuk.com/m.gavin/pstrev.htm

Then:

http://www.astroman.fsnet.co.uk/needle1.htm

And Finally:

http://coronadofilters.com/

(Some of) the latter are a bit of a "nice price" though.

[proflight2000]

Ahh something to do during the day, well takes me back to my other hoby of taking and collecting shots of aircraft at high altitude, although I have a bit of kit that tells me who they are and when they will be overhead. Try a few, although as is always mentioned, the light during the day can be quite bright in a large telescope.

This is one I took of CSA flight on route to Montreal from Prauge at 34,000 feet.

[Chubster]

Cheers all. Well thats £55 saved. I thought I would be able to see the sort of images you see on here with just the filter attached.

So £55 saved ......now, where do I get one of those pst's

I hate this hobby

[blinky]

You may have saved £55 but I think a PST is around the £500 mark

[Macavity]

You do have to be impressed with some of the PRICES approaching the £10k mark...

After a little "light" reading, I do concede that these things might be a tad tricky to manufacture....

I can, just about, afford the HAT though!