Sol 8-5-2020

[Ibbo!]

Ha defeated by the cloud today.

 

3 pane 80mm Cak sol.

 

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[Altocumulus]

Stunning.

 

[Pete Presland]

Incredibly quite still, bit still a beautiful sharp image.

[David Smith]

Awesome, welcome to the Ca-K imagers club

[Ibbo!]

2 hours ago, David Smith said:

Awesome, welcome to the Ca-K imagers club

Thanks.

I needed to be a bit quicker with the panes(9-5 image)

I also need to fit an electric focuser to Eddy if I carry on using him for Cak.

[Merlin66]

Steve,

On all my solar ED80's I've fitted a geared tooth belt drive to the 10:1 focuser knob. Using the SW/Orion accutrac motor.

Works well for me.

 

[DrRobin]

Nice one Steve. 

All of my solar kit is still in hiding, Sept 2018 was the last outing in Crete, perhaps I will go and have a look to see if it is still there?

Robin

[Ibbo!]

On 11/05/2020 at 01:01, Merlin66 said:

Steve,

On all my solar ED80's I've fitted a geared tooth belt drive to the 10:1 focuser knob. Using the SW/Orion accutrac motor.

Works well for me.

 

I think I have a motor like that somewhere.

My Eddy is so ancient it only has one speed focuser 😃