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| May 19, 2012, 08:08:44 AM
Special filters for looking at the sun I guess. Nice piece of equipment for an interesting hobby! How hard is it to set up level and facing specific direction to start with? | |
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| May 20, 2012, 07:23:42 AM
That looks like a sophisticated piece of equipment!! |
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| May 20, 2012, 07:52:31 AM
Hi Graeme, I have a white light solar filter attached to the telescope lens, these are pretty cheap to buy and can show some great detail in the sunspots. You can use a normal bubble level to level the mount and the ground you use the mounting on. As for pointing the telescope this is pretty easy. All you really have to do is have a rough idea where the south celestial pole is and align the mounts polar axis roughly to where you think it is. If it's the day time I just face the mount south, I know its not perfectly on the pole but its fine for solar viewing. Once the scope is aligned you just undo the RA and declination screws and twist the scope round till its facing the sun. Only problem is this scope doesn't have a finder scope on top of it to make looking for celestial objects easier. Lucky this telescope has quite I wide field of view so I just move the telescope round till the suns in the eyepiece. |
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| May 24, 2012, 09:34:09 AM
Ah yes, that was what I was meaning - aligning with south celestial pole or geo south. I was also wondering about the energy from the sun's rays interfering with the receptor for photographic purposes - the lens being an amplifier/concentrator to some extent. |
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