On Thursday i shiuld receive my Lunt 60/50 presure tuned DS scope frim OPT. What do you think about the TWO AS I 178 for $399?? I have a Baader Hyperion Mark 4 and a Powermate 2.5x. If used together, will the entire solar disk be visable in the EP & imaged with the above camera?
Without breaking the bank, what other recommendations do you have?
Cameras for solar imaging
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Re: Cameras for solar imaging
Hi Frank,
You can try the FOV calculator at http://www.12dstring.me.uk/fovcalc.php to check it out
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You can try the FOV calculator at http://www.12dstring.me.uk/fovcalc.php to check it out
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Re: Cameras for solar imaging
How are you planning to image - prime focus or eyepiece projection?
http://brierleyhillsolar.blogspot.co.uk/
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Re: Cameras for solar imaging
I'm so new at this I don't know but I think eyepiece projection. I don't know which is best. .org
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Re: Cameras for solar imaging
Point Grey Research Chameleon 3 gives a full disk with LS60, (model with 3.1Mpx sensor). I have one and like it, (prime focus).
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Re: Cameras for solar imaging
You really need to be doing prime focus. Eyepiece projection is not the best way...
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Re: Cameras for solar imaging
Alex can you elaborate on the reason for global vs rolling shutter. I notice that the camera I was looking at from ZWO has a rolling shutter (ZWO ASI 178) If I go with a Cameleon 3 what adapter is needed to attach to the Lunt 60MM scope. Mine has the 1.25" 1200 BF diag. Sorry about all the questions.
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Baader Hyperion Mark 4 8-24mm
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Re: Cameras for solar imaging
The sun surface, especially at high resolution is very unstable.
You better have to capture in "one shot" a frozen frame, rather than reading one row form the camera chip, while the next row continues capture a moving detail.
The most common representation of this is by making a picture of a cooling fan:
http://blogs.esanjoaquin.com/san-joaqui ... l-reality/
CS
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You better have to capture in "one shot" a frozen frame, rather than reading one row form the camera chip, while the next row continues capture a moving detail.
The most common representation of this is by making a picture of a cooling fan:
http://blogs.esanjoaquin.com/san-joaqui ... l-reality/
CS
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