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Hello,

A new idea : I saw that according to f/d telescope, secondary newton mirror can resist against solar heat without any filter.

According to this, we can imagine to place a smaller erf on the foscuser just before a PST mod.

What do you think?
will a 6" f/2,8 could be ok?


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Hi Vincent

will you be stripping the main mirror ?


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no


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Interesting idea!

Is there any formula to calculate heat according to focal?

Why not placing the ERF just before the secondary with a proper cell/support?


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DSobserver wrote:no
Hi Vincent


Oh, that will be an extremely hot instrument


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DSobserver wrote:
According to this, we can imagine to place a smaller erf on the foscuser just before a PST mod.

What do you think?
I think it will focus the reflected energy back on the primary mirror...


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What about tilting then the ERF say at 45° ?


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Uncoated mirrors are great for white light, but remember that for Hα we shouldn't waste photons. A D-ERF has 90% transmission in Hα, and this becomes much darker after passing through the etalon+blocking filter. Using one uncoated mirror would reduce this final light by a factor of ~20. I guess it can be acceptable, e.g. I use around 0.3-0.4 ms exposure with my current setup (D-ERF + Lunt35 ERF & etalon + Lunt B600, final ratio of f/12.6). 20x that is 6 ms, which still isn't bad.

As for strongly tilting the ERF, it's not a good idea - would introduce lots of astigmatism (optics experts, please correct me if I'm wrong).

From what I've seen here on Solarchat, when the refractor guys use a sub-aperture ERF, it's not much smaller than the objective – maybe 1.2-1.5 times (by diameter), which implies it's safe for the ERF irradiance to be around ~2x larger than compared to front-mounted option.


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Re: newton PST mod

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If you put the bandpass type ERF in front of the secondary. Then just tilt it so that it reflects the beam down in the corner some place.
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If you use a 45% cold mirror the IR goes on through . Then block the rest of the reflected light with a piece of RG630. Then the filter.
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