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Some nice solar prominences from lunchtime

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17 years 3 months ago #51751 by TrevorDurity
Replied by TrevorDurity on topic Re: Some nice solar prominences from lunchtime
140mm!!!! Ye gads! You'll be able to crawl right into those proms Michael.

Actually I have a Baader Cool-ERF, a cell for the Megrez 90 and the PST etalon to 2 inch adaptor. It's a good match for the Megrez 90 as the light cone converges to 20mm in the focussing range, so there are no issues with backfocus.

One major problem though. I had my PST "repaired" in Germany to fix the "rust problem". They replaced it with a new style PST on which the eyepiece spacer cannot be removed. Cacn you believe that? They are actively preventing people from making this mod now :evil: . So I have all the equipment and am seriously considering cutting the spacer tube off altogether. Would never be able to sell the PST if I upgrade then however.

BTW I saw a post from Arthur of Ambermille mentioning that he thought the PST etalon could be compromised at greater than 90mm. But I have seen some images from a larger setup by Cai Uso. Could be that his setup was purely for imaging though.

Trev

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