Equinox Viewing at UNC Wilmington

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Equinox Viewing at UNC Wilmington

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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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Well done. You had an impressive line up.


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Excellent job! Well done :)


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What a great day :hamster: well done :)

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:thumbsup: B) :) ;)


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Hi Ralph

welcome to that wonderful TOS free site, have sun, have fun. Great outreach, congrats on that


Only stardust in the wind, some fine and some less fine scopes, filters and adapters as well. Switzerland 47 N, 9 E, in the heart of EUROPE :)

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from 7.01 pm - 6.59 am http://www.wastronomiko.com some times vice versa ;)
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