Daystar Solar Scout SS60 DS second light

[Miguel1983]

Hi all,

yesterday i’ve received the Solar Scout from FLO, did get a chance to test the views. 

Today it cleared up after some rain this morning.

 

Anyway, got the gear set up and the Quark setteled and i must say i’m impressed with the views of this budget solar scope.

some nice surface detail and prominences.

i’m quite green when it comes to solar observing but comparing the views i had with a Baader solar film filter is like day and night.

 

[Hughsie]

Hydrogen alpha goggles - Check.

And looking further down I see....

Beer goggles - Check

[Miguel1983]

1 minute ago, Hughsie said:

Hydrogen alpha goggles - Check.

And looking further down I see....

Beer goggles - Check

Yep, got my beer and my vape 😎

[johninderby]

Some sun here tomorrow....maybe. 🙏🏼

I think this little scope is going to be very popular. 

[niallk]

Congrats - I'd love to look thru one!  Sun, blue skies, a beer: perfect 😂

Some nice proms on view today- evolved nicely over the last few hours.

Here's to the next cycle of activity

Edited June 15, 2019 by niallk

[Adam Barnsley]

Are You using hyperion lV zoom with ds60mm? How IT working? Any internal reflections?

[Miguel1983]

19 hours ago, Adam Barnsley said:

Are You using hyperion lV zoom with ds60mm? How IT working? Any internal reflections?

That is the Hyperion 21mm on there, gives me 44x and a nice overview of the Sun

[Miguel1983]

21 hours ago, johninderby said:

Some sun here tomorrow....maybe. 🙏🏼

I think this little scope is going to be very popular. 

Well it sure checkes all the boxes 🙂

[Adam Barnsley]

Wow. Thank You. 

What eyepiece do you use for higher magnification? (details of the chromosphere and prots)

[Adam Barnsley]

I thinking about 15 mm eyepiece. x66 Is this too much magnification?

[Miguel1983]

it depends on the apparent field of view of your eyepiece.

Hyperions are 68° field of view, image below shows the various magnifications

[Miguel1983]

Hi,

Yesterday i mounted my Rising Tech IMX178 color camera on the Daystar, there were some high clouds, i managed to capture the surface, but the prominences were few and the cloud haze gave a bad result, so i only stacked the surface images.

didn't see to much spots on my screen so i didn't took flats.

The image is from a 500 frame video and i stacked 50 in Autostackerd ,  did some wavelets in Registacks and post in PS CS6.

I have a cheap 0,5 reducer so i can fit the whole disk, but i was planning to shoot prominences too, but as i mentioned that didn't work out yesterday.

 

On the EQ6

 

Image frame withe the 0,5 reducer

Edited June 26, 2019 by Miguel1983

[johninderby]

Yes the sun is quiet to say the least. I blame it on all the Ha scopes being bought. 😁

Clear skies predicted tomorrow afternoon so fingers crossed. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

Edited June 26, 2019 by johninderby

[daslolo]

On 16/06/2019 at 02:34, Miguel1983 said:

That is the Hyperion 21mm on there, gives me 44x and a nice overview of the Sun

Which website do you make these images in?

[Miguel1983]

Hi, you can do this here

[richard ashbee]

do you use either a polarising or UV/IR filter for imaging?