July 17, 2021: First light of the Tri-Band SCT

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Managed to get the Triband SCT out in glorious sunshine.

white light configuration

Ca-K

H-alpha

Seeing was up and down, but the detail in WL was certainly good:

This is a crop of the full image of obtained with the ASI183MM

Ca-K was a bit less convincing

This is to be expected

H-alpha shows a ton of detail, but with my rather older model Solar Spectrum filter, which has a small clear aperture, the FOV is a bit restricted. Will almost certainly order a bigger one

Still, quite pleased with the result

[Victor Boesen]

Beautiful Michael I know a person from Denmark, @Ljungmann, who's very happy with his 8" triband for visual H-alpha observing with a solar spectrum filter. Did you manage to have a look through it visually, or did you stick to imaging?
His setup can be seen here.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

17 minutes ago, Victor Boesen said:

Beautiful Michael I know a person from Denmark, @Ljungmann, who's very happy with his 8" triband for visual H-alpha observing with a solar spectrum filter. Did you manage to have a look through it visually, or did you stick to imaging?
His setup can be seen here.

I did have a brief look visually. Again the FOV is a bit restricted, but the image quality was great 

[Rusted]

Congratulations on a fine instrument and stunning results! 

BTW: You seem to have even more trees than I do! 

[Alan White]

Great images Michael.
I have somehow missed about the Tri-Band scope, another thread or is this new?

[Ibbo!]

Very nice and shows much promise for the future.

[Chris-h]

Great images