Equinox Viewing at UNC Wilmington
Equinox Viewing at UNC Wilmington
On Friday September, 21, Professor Brian Davis and I set-up a solar viewing session in front of the library at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. I brought a variety of optical telescopes and radio telescopes to compliment Dr. Davis' sundials, sextants, and astrolabes.
It was parents' weekend, so we had a lot of "passers-by" who were quite interested in seeing the sun close up and personal.
The optical hardware included the following:
Double stacked PST
Lunt LS80THa/PT
Lunt LS60TCaK
Explore Scientific AR102 with Lunt Herschel wedge
iOptron MC152 with Bader filter
The radio telescopes included:
1.5m loop antenna for sudden ionispheric disturbance (SID) detection
Dipole antenna tuned to 20.1 MHz
The following are some photos from the event and some images that the students took with a DMK41 camera then stacked and processed.
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Excellent job! Well done
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Hi Ralph
welcome to that wonderful TOS free site, have sun, have fun. Great outreach, congrats on that
welcome to that wonderful TOS free site, have sun, have fun. Great outreach, congrats on that
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