It is finally done - I have finished painting the Solar Spectrograph. Although hot pink was my second choice, I did go with a deep blue primary coat, with silver sprayed from 6 feet away to put a metallic sparkle on the panels. (Bling, Bling) I spent the entire day putting the whole affair back together, now everyting inside is painted flat black too. An hour ago, I pointed it at the setting sun with a 25mm eyepiece installed. I nearly fainted. The detail and clarity of the suns spectrum was outstanding! I cant wait to get a camera on this thing. This instrument is designed especially to explore the properties and get drift scans of the sun at various wavelengths.
Here are a few shots I took an hour ago of what it looks like now. Its missing the indicator pointer on the top for the angle of the grating, but its pretty much done:
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