Show us your set up in action during the day.

[DirkSteele]

5 minutes ago, John said:

Wonderful scopes in wonderful locations Matthew 🙂

Do you still have the LZOS 130 F/9 ?

You k ow you have too many scopes when you forget to include an image of your newest scope (and oldest for that matter, the C11).

The 130 f/9 in the Chiltern Hills. Still daylight but well on its way to dusk.

 

Been a bit absent on SGL for the last 2 years as we welcomed a little girl into the family just before Christmas 2020. Has also impacted my astronomy generally but starting to get going again. Most excitingly, she has asked about the moon already so hoping to have an observing buddy in a few years.😀🤞

 

[Stu]

11 minutes ago, DirkSteele said:

You k ow you have too many scopes when you forget to include an image of your newest scope (and oldest for that matter, the C11).

The 130 f/9 in the Chiltern Hills. Still daylight but well on its way to dusk.

 

Been a bit absent on SGL for the last 2 years as we welcomed a little girl into the family just before Christmas 2020. Has also impacted my astronomy generally but starting to get going again. Most excitingly, she has asked about the moon already so hoping to have an observing buddy in a few years.😀🤞

 

Many congratulations Matthew, lovely news 👍. You can get her started with the FS-60C and she can work her way up from there 😊

[John]

16 minutes ago, DirkSteele said:

Been a bit absent on SGL for the last 2 years as we welcomed a little girl into the family just before Christmas 2020....

 

Congratulations Matthew 🙂

I had nearly 10 years without a scope at all when our children came along 🙄

[IB20]

A new addition to the stable. 😁

 

 

 

Edited May 8, 2023 by IB20

[JeremyS]

Tak FC 76DCU

[F15Rules]

On 29/09/2022 at 18:54, L8-Nite said:

Astral 100 at a favourite observing spot up on a local mountain. 

Love it! Back to basics minimalist  viewing at its best!👍

Dave

[F15Rules]

1 hour ago, JeremyS said:

Tak FC 76DCU

Is the carry handle obscured by the finder, Jeremy?🙃

Dave

[JeremyS]

Another solar day (actually I just showing up @Stu having cut my grass 😊)

[JeremyS]

Used the Quark on the FC 76DCU to follow the growth, evolution and decay of a spicule. Far more detail than in the Lunt 50 SS next to it, but that was pretty good too, just a smaller aperture 

[Victor Boesen]

19 hours ago, JeremyS said:

Used the Quark on the FC 76DCU to follow the growth, evolution and decay of a spicule. Far more detail than in the Lunt 50 SS next to it, but that was pretty good too, just a smaller aperture 

Excellent Jeremy! Haven't been out solar observing for a long time due to lack of spare time unfortunately. I'm curious how the tak prism handles the heat from the sun with the Quark placed after the diagonal and the diagonal being a prism and not a mirror?

Victor

[JeremyS]

7 minutes ago, Victor Boesen said:

Excellent Jeremy! Haven't been out solar observing for a long time due to lack of spare time unfortunately. I'm curious how the tak prism handles the heat from the sun with the Quark placed after the diagonal and the diagonal being a prism and not a mirror?

Victor

I wondered about that too, Victor. But it barely gets warm. I suspect because it’s not at the focal point 

[Alan White]

Had a moment of clear sky and feeling less full of cold too so grabbed an hour WL solar. 
Feel refreshed now.

Oh and I cut my grass too, just to keep everyone else company...

 

Edited May 14, 2023 by Alan White

[Franklin]

A blast from the past with a bit of old school solar projection this morning. Seeing quite good and plenty of detail with the Vixen 3" achro and 17mm Plossl, the photos don't show how it looked very well..

 

[Stu]

Tak is out for a few little sessions between painting. Seeing ok, not the best, not the worst.

[Franklin]

39 minutes ago, Stu said:

Tak is out for a few little sessions between painting. Seeing ok, not the best, not the worst.

I like the look of your observing chair, haven't seen that one before. It seems to have a very wide range of heights.

[MalcolmM]

On first glance, I thought it was the easel for the painting  😀

Malcolm 

[Sunshine]

1 hour ago, Stu said:

Tak is out for a few little sessions between painting. Seeing ok, not the best, not the worst.

Wow what a beautiful back garden you have! 

[Stu]

34 minutes ago, Franklin said:

I like the look of your observing chair, haven't seen that one before. It seems to have a very wide range of heights.

Yes, it’s called a Catsperch, got it with a 16” Sumerian I bought years ago, works well.

[Sunshine]

My 102 awaiting sunset and my new Lunt.

[RobertI]

102ED-R out this afternoon with BV at around 160x. Lovely detail visible on Sol before it disappeared behind the rooftops. Bino-bandit is a great addition for solar viewing. 

Edited May 20, 2023 by RobertI

[Sunshine]

4 minutes ago, RobertI said:

102ED-R out this afternoon with BV at around 160x. Lovely detail visible on Sol before it disappeared behind the rooftops. Bino-bandit is a great addition for solar viewing. 

Wow that looks like a super clean and sharp view through that WL wedge.

[RobertI]

2 minutes ago, Sunshine said:

Wow that looks like a super clean and sharp view through that WL wedge.

Thanks, yes it was remarkable actually, I wish the photo could show the incredible detail visible at the eyepiece. Still, I can’t help wanting one of those lovely Lunt solar scopes.  

[Sunshine]

15 minutes ago, RobertI said:

Thanks, yes it was remarkable actually, I wish the photo could show the incredible detail visible at the eyepiece. Still, I can’t help wanting one of those lovely Lunt solar scopes.  

Unfortunately and for the life of me I can’t understand why they cost so much more across the pond. They should cost no more than an additional shipping cost and that’s it.

[Franklin]

19 minutes ago, RobertI said:

I wish the photo could show the incredible detail visible at the eyepiece

Were you using a Polarizing filter? or just the ND3 in the wedge?

[RobertI]

3 minutes ago, Franklin said:

Were you using a Polarizing filter? or just the ND3 in the wedge?

It was just the wedge, no filter, I did consider digging out the polarizer, but actually at that magnification it wasn’t bright at all.