From: jim_chung@sunshine.net

Date: May 23, 2016 8:17:26 PM MDT

To: <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com>

Subject: More solar fun ......

Reply-To: jim_chung@sunshine.net

I'm still trying to reverse engineer how Alan Friedman makes his exquisite solar images.

Until then, I sold off all my earlier Ha solar gear and tried the Daystar Quark for the Mercury transit.  Wasn't happy with it because the image field was very uneven, apparently a common quality control issue.

So I recently acquired a 12 year old (pre Meade) Coronado double stacked Maxscope 40 and am very happy to report it is a fine performing instrument.  Here's today's first light with my PGR Grasshopper Express.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4852049/VictoriaDaySun2016.jpg

So no more PST sweet spots and laborious mosaic composite images to make.  The disc data even captured prominence structures without having to expose them separately.

In Canada, today is a national holiday to celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday.

May the sun never set on the British Empire!!!!!!!

Jim (dual Canadian/British citizen)