Sun in CaK / White Light
With Stellarvue SV80s 
+ Lunt CaK filter or Baader Wedge
Uploaded 12/03/12

Daily Report
For Sunday, January 29th, 2017
 
 Seeing
            was so bad today, the edge of the Sun was like a sawtooth blade.
            None the less, I was interested in trying out the new Besser
            mount with the SV80 for some solar astro imaging. I set up on
            the balcony, and took both white light with the Baader Herschel
            wedge, and some calcium full disks with the Lunt B600 filter.
            Here are shots of the Sun today with its diminutive spots, and
            the new mount!
 
Images below are 800 wide and non clickable
 

            
 WHITE
            LIGHT:

            
The
            full disk at prime focus of the 80mm Stellarvue/Zeiss APO:

            


            
 

            
Next,
            I put in the 2.5x Televue Powermate. The blur from the seeing
            was TWICE the size of the Sunspots:

            


            
 

            
Calcium
            K shot with the B600 at prime focus:

            


            
 

            
Finally,
            a shot of the set up on the balcony, with the new Besser EXOS-2
            Mount:

            



Instruments:  SV80S with Zeiss Apochromat
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200
Camera:  DMK 51 - 1600 x 1200
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 7/10, Transparency 9/10
Outside Temperature: 45F
Processing: Registax 6, Photoshop CS2

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