The Sun in white light and H-alpha

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starfinder
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The Sun in white light and H-alpha

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With the bright sunshine today, I decided to do a bit of solar viewing and imaging.

Here are two images of the Sun taken minutes apart.
The one on the left was taken through a Celestron C-5 SCT with a Baader solar safety film at prime focus (EOS 60D).
The one on the right was taken through a Coronado PST h-alpha telescope with a 20mm eyepiece; since I could not get the dSLR to focus, I used my smartphone to do the imaging off the eyepiece.

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Re: The Sun in white light and H-alpha

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Hi Starfinder,

Good job. Nice images. Nice proms in H-Alpha. One way of focusing in H-Alpha is to use the limb and up the magnification to focus. Looking forward to seeing more from you.

Cheers.

Alfred
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