Show us your set up in action during the day.

[Nigella Bryant]

Hi all, there's lots of telescope action during the night but that's only half the day. Show off your set up in action during the day.

 

Edited December 5, 2020 by Nigella Bryant
More pics added.

[John]

I don't do much solar observing but here are a few of mine. Don't have the PST or the Lunt 50 now but they were fun little scopes:

 

 

[Nigella Bryant]

16 minutes ago, John said:

I don't do much solar observing but here are a few of mine. Don't have the PST or the Lunt 50 now but they were fun little scopes:

 

 

Brilliant, thanks for posting.

[John]

3 minutes ago, Nigella Bryant said:

Brilliant, thanks for posting.

Good idea for a thread, especially with the Sun starting to get active again

[Victor Boesen]

I really enjoy scrolling through these threads, but I haven't taken part of one yet! May this one be the first

Here's my Evostar 72ED DS-Pro with a custom 3D-printed solar filter (Baader white light film) in action:

Another one with my buddy tanning in the background 

I am considering the Lunt 1.25" wedge for my Evostar 72 and Tecnosky 102 refractors since the sun is beginning to show a lot of activity again!

Victor

[Paul73]

Good idea for a thread. Here is my PST in 100mm mode. 
Paul

[Nigella Bryant]

Thanks everyone, as peps are saying, the sun will now only get better to observe.

[Sunshine]

Acquired my firs frac last year, been having a great time splitting stars but, wife threatened to split my skull if I buy another scope.

[Sunshine]

8 minutes ago, Nigella Bryant said:

Thanks everyone, as peps are saying, the sun will now only get better to observe.

Breathtaking! your solar disc shot crosses the line into art, absolutely stunning!

[Nigella Bryant]

3 minutes ago, Sunshine said:

Acquired my firs frac last year, been having a great time splitting stars but, wife threatened to split my skull if I buy another scope.

You could always say you need a solar filter so you'd get more use out of the scope by using it during the day, lol. 

[Nigella Bryant]

1 minute ago, Sunshine said:

Breathtaking! your solar disc shot crosses the line into art, absolutely stunning!

Awwwww, thanks Sunshine, you've got an appropriate name, lol.

[Paul73]

12 minutes ago, Sunshine said:

Acquired my firs frac last year, been having a great time splitting stars but, wife threatened to split my skull if I buy another scope.

Be careful with that Telrad in the sun. I left mine outside between rare back to back observing nights and half the rings melted off!!!!

Paul

[Nigella Bryant]

2 minutes ago, Paul73 said:

Be careful with that Telrad in the sun. I left mine outside between rare back to back observing nights and half the rings melted off!!!!

Paul

Yep, you have to be very careful using night time scopes during the day, especially finder's which are often forgotten. Use solar filters on them or cover them up. 

[CraigT82]

Not quite in action but ready for action, if the sun would only show itself in the morning when I can get onto it.

[laudropb]

A couple of shots from the summer.

[Nigella Bryant]

11 minutes ago, CraigT82 said:

Not quite in action but ready for action, if the sun would only show itself in the morning when I can get onto it.

Looking good. During the winter day's I've only a one hour window of opportunity between trees and being to low so it's quite difficult with the weather as well to have that observing opportunity.

[Nigella Bryant]

1 minute ago, laudropb said:

A couple of shots from the summer.

The solarquest mount's are brilliant.

[laudropb]

Yes. They really are so simple to set up and a joy to use.

[John]

Not my scope but this one belonged to the Lowell Observatory. A quick spot of solar H-a observing during our visit there in 2019. I think the scope was a Lunt LS100 - the largest aperture H-a scope that I've looked though

[Nigella Bryant]

5 minutes ago, John said:

Not my scope but this one belonged to the Lowell Observatory. A quick spot of solar H-a observing during our visit there in 2019. I think the scope was a Lunt LS100 - the largest aperture H-a scope that I've looked though

Lovely, I soooo want a Lunt 100 DS. In my dreams, lol. 

[Sunshine]

18 minutes ago, Nigella Bryant said:

Lovely, I soooo want a Lunt 100 DS. In my dreams, lol. 

You and me both, a dream to own, a nightmare inducing credit card bill.

[Moonshed]

18 minutes ago, John said:

Not my scope but this one belonged to the Lowell Observatory. A quick spot of solar H-a observing during our visit there in 2019. I think the scope was a Lunt LS100 - the largest aperture H-a scope that I've looked though

Hi John, 

The Lowell observatory is needed well worth a visit. My wife and I were in Arizona back in 2008 visiting her sister in Phoenix and a small group of us decided to pay it a visit during a stop in Flagstaff. It was unfortunately closed when we turned up but nonetheless we were given a private tour of the observatory and a short talk about the telescope.  I was really amused when it was pointed out the the telescope lens cover, towering way above us, was in fact a frying pan!

It was a great visit, would have to have been for me to still remember parts of it! 🤔

[JamesF]

Something that should appeal to Nigella: a couple of oldies from a white light imaging session with my 450D and 127 Mak:

James

[JamesF]

Hmm.  Not sure why that first image isn't in the correct orientation :(

James

[Moonshed]

3 minutes ago, JamesF said:

Hmm.  Not sure why that first image isn't in the correct orientation

James

It’s a sad and slippery slope.....