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My latest Solar project update....:-), just saved myself a whole whole heap of..

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NickH

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CASH...

Doesn't need a rocket scientist to work it out now does it..

Got 1 minute 15 seconds of clear sky today...it was enough to prove the concept works, and works very well

no focus issues, no astigmatism...this is the live view (not a stack) with me frantically pressing print screen before the clouds did their worst.

Plus, it's visually SOOOOOOOOOOOO much better, I can focus now, and see stuff...

in that 1 minute I swapped over 3 ERF test setups, and then worked out the final bit needed...

anyway...like I say, doesn't need a rocket scientist to work it all out...

I now have one scope, which will do three jobs...courtesy of 2 different ERF solutions, and two different back end modules..

Imaged at F13...I know I can push this rig easily to F45...and the proms will light up like xmas trees!

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barkis

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I have some bits that look like those, but there is a difference in the interiors without a doubt.

Are the colours indicative of filters. You are going to be imaging in a very special area of the spectrum? These are wild guesses.

The first image is a focusing assistant, and it is going to save a lot of hassle with focusing. Just groping here. I am clearly no a Rocket scientist, more like a Rocket Lettuce, and a wet one at that. :D

Ron. :)

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I'm with Ron. Its the sun. You are doing three things at once with one scope and two finders. The rest is double Dutch.

Come on Nick, humour Ron and I, we are old.

Mike

Oi! I've had a new Speedometer fitted. :)

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Okay, I have disassembled a Coronado PST and PST CaK. Added various adapters and energy rejection filtering systems, and made them in to glorified diagonals (see the book shot)...

The scope at the front is a William optics Zenithstar 80mm short tube, which I can fit either a Baader 90mm C-ERF (for H_alpha) or a simple 2 inch IR blocking filter (on the CaK assembly), to turn that scope into a very powerful H-A or CaK imaging system. If I add a simple white light filter to the front of the ZS80, it becomes the white light scope (so three in one)..

That's what's coming to China with me...

Triple band imaging of the eclipse (cak and H-A for the ingress and egress) and white light for totality

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Much clearer Nick. Its just ignorance holding me back now - I understand what it does I'll read up on the bits you have used. Hopefully Mrs MikeP and I are going to China if Pete ever gets back to us :? , so perhaps I'll see it in the flesh.

Mike

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