Lunt LS50THa & Altair GPCAM2 130M prime focus.
This blog contains experiences and experiments with my solar telescope. I currently own a Lunt LS50THa Hydrogen Alpha telescope and take images with an Altair GPCAM2 130M camera, dispersion prism (to remove Newton's rings) and a barlow lens element.
Tuesday, 14 May 2019
Sunday, 12 May 2019
Friday, 19 April 2019
2019-04-19
Lunt LS50THa & Altair GPCAM2 130M. Disk both prime focus and with a barlow element (2x3 mosaic) & prominences with barlow.
Monday, 15 April 2019
2019-04-15 AR2738
Lunt LS50 THa & Altair GPCAM2 130M. I tried for a mosaic but Altair Capture software only took 100 frames instead of 500 for most of it so the results were no good.
Thursday, 11 April 2019
2019-04-11 AR2738
After another long break with very little solar activity, I'm back. Slightly different setup now, I'm using the camera a prime focus without the dispersion prism, but with the nose piece cross threaded to create a tilt effect to remove the Newtons rings. Also just a single frame so the small blocking filter and small sweet spot is visible in the image.
Lunt LS50 THa & Altair GPCAM2 130M.
Lunt LS50 THa & Altair GPCAM2 130M.
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
2018-06-27 Disk and prom
After 8 months without using my Lunt due to a divorce and house move, a set of full disk images (3x2 mosaic).
Lunt LS50 THa, Altaie GPCAM2 130M, dispersion prism & barlow element.
Lunt LS50 THa, Altaie GPCAM2 130M, dispersion prism & barlow element.
Sunday, 8 October 2017
2017-10-08 Nice Prom
Clear blue skies until the Sun got high enough over houses to image and then BANG cloud appeared from nowhere. However during a brief break I managed to capture a nice prom. Nothing much on the disk today.
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