That all looks set up correctly to me. Of course, as others have said there are no features of significance to view on the sun and you would never see granulation in the Sun’s chromosphere, only in the photosphere with white light. I’ve only used a quark a few times but to be honest I have never got...

I have a little different take on that. I would say if you were going to be imaging the sun and CaK or H-alpha with the scope, there is no need for a triplet and in my experience a much less expensive doublet performs identically since there is only one wavelength of light to focus. Of course, if yo...

lol. This filter is being sold by Apolo Lasky who has been booted from this forum under 3 different user names for selling unsafe solar filters. No, it will not show prominemces. stay away. I could go on with the litany of mentally unbalanced actions this person has taken towards our forum and other...

It has been discovered that Apolo Lasky is back using the name ”TheSkyburner” this time. He has been banned several times from this forum for selling unsafe equipment and for illegally using the CBSAP brand in selling said equipment on eby and youtube. This guy is nuts and I would appreciate anyone ...

you folks are very kind. thank you.

I very much appreciate all of the kind words from my friends here. I have no intention of stopping the Solarchat forum. if something comes up with it we will deal with that later. It seems to be working good for now and like I said, it is paid for a few more years. Again, I am not planning on stoppi...

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are you setting up the scope in normal configuration and then putting the Quark where the eyepiece went? Leaving the diagonal in place?

screws right on

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Charlie died in 2007. The program is named in memoriam. Everyone makes that mistake...just letting you know. Im Stephen Ramsden, Director.

Well, I’m sorry to hear that. I think every seasoned solar astronomer here has dropped and destroyed at least one scope. It looks like you already have access to the penta prism in the photo of the unscrewed blocking filter assembly. P.S. not to be the bearer of bad news but that is the most rusted ...

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The BF30 screws into the end of the focuser. It's no big deal. I would not recommend buying one though as the blocking filter glass is way more reliable in 15mm chunks. The benefit of a 2 inch eyepiece/ larger BF is negligible in these scopes as here is nothing else to see in a larger field of view.

Welcome.! That prominence was a wee baby prom compared to those seen during solar maximum. Here are a couple pictures of prominences during the last maximum in 2012-2013. Stay with it. We are approaching minimum but we will be back at maximum in a few years and you will have learned the hobby during...