Solar AP getting started guide?

[kirkster501]

Any recommendation on this please?  Can I use my ED80 and 450d, with appropriate solar filter of course? I'd rather not use the FSQ and CCD at this stage in case I do something wrong and wreck them!

Thanks, Steve

[JB80]

It shouldn't be a problem Steve. Bizbuilder(Roger) has done a excellent write up and it should be the first place to start. I have not used an ED80 but I do use my 450D regularly for white light.

http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/153712-simple-white-light-solar-imaging/page-2?hl=%2Bsimple+%2Bsolar#entry2508957

[Zakalwe]

Mark Townley's site is top notch:

http://brierleyhillsolar.blogspot.co.uk/p/imaging-tutorials.html

The Ken Crawford tutorials are more advanced but also very useful.

[kirkster501]

Thank you guys, I shall read these articles very carefully.

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[DrRobin]

Hi Steve,

With a suitable white light filter (either Baader solar film or one of the ready made filters) that sounds a perfect setup.  A Herschel wedge provides a little better image, as does the addition of a Baader Continnum filter or even (as I discovered recently) a Baader K Line (CaK) filter, but you can add these once you are bitten by the solar bug.

If solar becomes an addiction which only more exposure to the sun will provide then there is Hydrogen Alpha (Ha) which shows more detail than you thought possible, but comes at a cost.  Low cost (I use the term in it's relative sense) are a PST, Daystar Qaurk or new Lunt 50.  For more exotic bits of kit, it is best to be sitting down, look at Lunt 60, 80, Coronado 60 or Solarscope (any size).

Some folk on here only solar image, I do both solar and night time, but get about 5 images of the sun for every DSO/planet, it is that absorbing.  Oh, and the hours are more sociable as well.

Robin

[Pete Presland]

You are going to love solar imaging, it just so relaxing!

[Uplooker]

For more exotic bits of kit, it is best to be sitting down, look at Lunt 60, 80, Coronado 60 or Solarscope (any size).

Robin

Ha ha, I like that bit about sitting down

Ian

[kirkster501]

Thankyou all guys.  I shall read with interest