Hi All,
Please visit my homepage to view the image of the Sun taken this afternoon. It was taken through my 8 inch SCT telescope fitted with TO solar filter. Canon 300D camera 1/250 second exposure at 100ASA.
http://members.tripod.com/~choonkiat/gallery.html
Have a great weekend.
regards,
CK
Image of the Sun taken on 31 October 2003
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Re: Image of the Sun taken on 31 October 2003
Hi Choon Kiat,clim62000 wrote:Hi All,
Please visit my homepage to view the image of the Sun taken this afternoon. It was taken through my 8 inch SCT telescope fitted with TO solar filter. Canon 300D camera 1/250 second exposure at 100ASA.
http://members.tripod.com/~choonkiat/gallery.html
Have a great weekend.
regards,
CK
Nice pics but using an 8" scope to take such a bright object would be sort of an overkill?
Any chance of actually imaging a solar flare or are they rare and hard to capture?
cheers
rich
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Hi Rich,
Actually it is not an overkill using 8 inch or larger telescope to view or taking picture of the Sun. Like any other objects, bigger telescope will generally enable you to see more details.
As for solar flare, you'll need to use a special filter which only allows hidrogen alpha wavelength to pass. The filter I'm using is generally a visible light filter.
I have updated my homepage with a H-a image of the Sun. I don't think this is a good image but it will give you an idea of how the Sun looks like through this filter.
regards,
CK
Actually it is not an overkill using 8 inch or larger telescope to view or taking picture of the Sun. Like any other objects, bigger telescope will generally enable you to see more details.
As for solar flare, you'll need to use a special filter which only allows hidrogen alpha wavelength to pass. The filter I'm using is generally a visible light filter.
I have updated my homepage with a H-a image of the Sun. I don't think this is a good image but it will give you an idea of how the Sun looks like through this filter.
regards,
CK
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oh...I see!clim62000 wrote:Hi Rich,
Actually it is not an overkill using 8 inch or larger telescope to view or taking picture of the Sun. Like any other objects, bigger telescope will generally enable you to see more details.
As for solar flare, you'll need to use a special filter which only allows hidrogen alpha wavelength to pass. The filter I'm using is generally a visible light filter.
I have updated my homepage with a H-a image of the Sun. I don't think this is a good image but it will give you an idea of how the Sun looks like through this filter.
regards,
CK
good effort.....if you do upgrade to H2-Alpha filters, do post your efforts here for us to see!
cheers
rich
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