Mark

it looks that the T-max adjuster is really difficult to unscrew from SM40. Is that normal? Should I try harder?

Yes, will just unscrew...

Top image Richard! B)

Thanks guys! Hi Apollo, shooting through the haze / thin cloud definitely didn't help things - when I saw the histogram for the raw image it was all compressed - all the highlights were greyed out and skewed towards the mids, all the shadows were greyed out and skewed towards the mids. Stretching th...

Great additions!

The sky kinda cleared yesterday afternoon - the eastern half of the sky (where the sun wasn't) was lovely and deep blue, however the western part of the sky was a thick milky haze. Took a while for me to wait just for it to become vaguely constant (if not good) transparency so I could get this imagi...

Is the etalon unscrewed from the black box using the boa constrictor / rubber strap tool then if it's a toughy to get out?

the link to full res

http://www.astrosurf.com/pcasquinha/conj120225.jpg

Holy schmoke! Thats good!!! :

Thanks Mark. I will use the LUNT CaK module without any mods first (when I get it).

best

Lol, probably a good idea

Nice capture Jim!

Excellent pickies!!!

Kool and the gang! B)

I struggle with colour vision myself too which is why I prefer monochrome. Nice image tho! How do you process them?

Cool stuff Stephen!

Welcome folks!

Cool stuff guys! Keep up the hard work!

Looks good Andrea! I take it's pretty easy to unscrew the etalong assembly from the black box of the PST?

Excellent images Fernando!!!

Top shots Chris!

Excellent setup and a great overview of how it all works! Thanks

Welcome! Go with the 90mm

Thanks Brian! :) Pedro, I don't think it would work using a Baader with ie. stacked with the lunt module - certainly if you do that with the coronado CaK PST it just makes the images dimmer - ie using the 2 complete filters in series. To make it work I had to replace the blocking filter part of the ...

OK, let me re-phrase... If you elect to remove the inside etalon ERF....would replacing the exterior etalon ERF with a Baader D-ERF make a significant improvement.... ( The reason I ask is the added significant cost of the Baader....) With 60mm etalons you consider this as a 'tester' to see if wort...

I still can't understand why you are getting far better contrast on the super granulation boundaries than I get with my Lunt bf600 module . Thanks! :) My homebrew CaK filter has a tighter bandpass than the Lunts ;) 2.2a compared to the 2.4a of the lunt, makes the super granulation much easier to se...

Bargain!

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Thanks everyone for your kind words... :) :) I was dreaming of the CaK mod, but it will probably be always in my dreams :unsure: Alexandra Fear not as soon I get decent run at the sun one of these coming weekends I will be testing out my 'alternative' CaK filter in place of the Baader K-Line in my h...