Sol from the 23rd of September 2020.

[eroel]

Hi:
Still bad weather it was clouded and rained, but had some chances to image through some small gaps in the clouds.
Thanks for looking.
Best regards to all.
Eric.

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[DeepSolar64]

All are great but I love the first CaK full disc the best.

[Astrophil]

Another great set of images, Eric. Thanks.

Phil

[Montana]

You are very lucky Eric, having an observatory means that even with bad weather you can be very quick to grab those moments of clear to get some wonderful images. The UK weather is so variable and can change very quickly, I need at least a safe 2 hr gap to image the Sun, as it takes half an hour to set up and half an hour to pack up again. Hence why my imaging is so sporadic.

These are a fab set, I really like the proms

Alexandra

[EGRAY_OBSERVATORY]

Hi Eric,
Such a set of grey-scale images are superb and both the Cak and the prom images are my favs (all-images)

Terry

[ffellah]

A great set, Eric, very sharp !

Franco

[eroel]

Alexandra, James, Phil, Terry and Franco:

Thank you very much for the kind comments.

Yes Alexandra, it is very convenient to have an observatory at home, just get to the roof (one floor), open the sliding roof, push the on buttons of the PC and the Atlas mount, take the cap from the scope I will be using, go to the Sun, connect the camera and the SSM cables and wait for some gaps in the clouds.

The place where my home is built is at 2271 meters above the mean sea level, so that also helps, weather is O.K. when we are not in the raining season, but the big city has a lot of atmospheric contamination, and light contamination at night, so I just can observe the Moon and Planets at night.

Wish you all a nice and safe weekend.
Eric.

[DeepSolar64]

Eric,
I never realized Mexico City was at such an high altitude. That is even higher than Denver Colorado. It's a massive city so it's effect on nighttime astronomy must be horrific. It makes a lot of sense going to solar!

Stay safe and stay COVID-19 free.

James

[eroel]

James:

Yes, it is a massive city, the last census (2020) is 21,782,378 inhabitants, so you can imagine the light contamination at night, but the funny part is that the average seeing is good for solar, lunar and planetary imaging, well altitude has to do with it, less atmosphere for the light to go through and less air temperature differences.

That is why I also have a rural observatory also situated high (2265 meters above sea level), there I have my older bigger scopes a 12" f/8 RC, a 12" f/10 Meade SCT, a 10" f/20 TEC Maksutov, a 180mm f/2.6 Epsilon, an 8" f/4 Newtonian (homemade) and a 6" f/12 AP refractor. There I have good seeing and low light pollution.

For years, when I was young, (started at 12now 82+) me and hobby friends used to carry all our scopes and gear out or travel with it, assemble it every time and after the next day started take evrything back down again, it was hard with big scopes, so many years later I decided to build a permanent observatory at the family ranch 135Km from the city, it was so convenient that I later homemade my small observatory at my city house roof.

Excuse the prehistoric story of my 2 observatories.

Best regards and keep safe too.

Eric.

[DeepSolar64]

Eric,
It's nice hearing the stories of your observatories. The closest I ever come to having one was a metal shed I had back in 1984 which I kept my Coulter 10.1', Criterion 6" Traq 2.4 and Focal 2" scopes in plus my charts, books etc. I had a bed in there too to sleep in so I would not even have to go down to the house. All I had to do was set the scopes out just outside the sliding metal doors and I was ready to go. I used this simple metal-building observatory until I moved out in 1988. I have thought about doing something simple like this again. Dragging equipment in and out of the house gets old sometimes. Observatories are really nice!

James

[EGRAY_OBSERVATORY]

Well Eric, you at 2271M / 7451-feet and me at just at 72.54M / 238-feet AMSL tells me that what you can and have been doing will always have an advantage to us at lower-heights, except of course in dark or very dark sites etc. A little jealousy of course, but hey, we have to make the best of what we have or can...

I, around 20-years ago decided that lugging-gear around in the future was not a lovely thought, so around 2003, I started the first parts of getting the current observatory started. It took for ages, as for the next 12-years from then, I was flying almost every day (weather permitting), so only around 5-years ago was the final-stages of building the observatory itself completed.

There was still the completion of all the internals, albeit the scopes' stand was actually built in about 2000, but covered and left outside prior to the six-foot deep concrete base being laid in around 2003 to install the H.D. stand now used.

And now with the latest changes to a new computer and changes to the cables for the cameras and mount etc., the end is nigh for the project.
Only now, the need to learn new techniques, programs and processing, will I hope to achieve some better images and night-observations too.

CLEAR SKIES
Regards
Terry

[ffellah]

Very nice to hear everybody’s stories with their telescopes and observatories.

Franco

[eroel]

Franco:
Yes, we all have stories to tell of how we started, I think that almost all did not have enough money to get his gear, so started with a really small scope that was given to us as a gift by our parents and family, so we made its mount, adapters and so on and started to keep and save everything concerning the hobby.
I still have that small 8X Wollensak little scope given to me when I was 12 years old, as also every adapter made since then, every scope bought or made and so on, sometimes I find one of those parts in the many full boxes of my hobby history.
Alexandra, James, Terry and Phil, thanks for the comments.
Have a nice and sunny weekend.
Eric.