From: Milton Aupperle <maupperl@gmail.com>

Date: May 23, 2016 11:18:30 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] More solar fun ......

Hi Jim;

Very cool..

Glad to hear you got a working solution on the PST.

I would have thought that things would improve with time, but I guess quality and control always win out. Similar issues appears to be happening with the Skywatcher EQ8 / Orion HX 110 mounts (a mount I am interested in) - hit or miss how well they work. 

Looking forward to what you capture, especially given our long summer days up north.

Milton Aupperle

http://www3.telus.net/maupperl/astroimages/astroindex.html

On 2016-05-23, at 8:17 PM, "jim_chung@sunshine.net [Astro_IIDC]" <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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