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Solar Reference Library
these are all of the great references that our users have shared with others.
Moderator: marktownley

Solar Scope Modifications
Frankenscope? Let's see it!***be advised that NOTHING in this forum has been safety tested and you are reading and using these posts at your own peril. blah, blah, blah... dont mess around with your eyesight when it comes to solar astronomy. Use appropriate filtration at all times...

Commercial Solar Filters/Cameras/Hardware
Use this section to discuss "standard" Baader/Coronado/ Lunt SolarView/ Daystar, etc… filters, cameras and scopes. No mods, just questions/ answers and reviews.

Solar Radio, Magnetometry and Spectroscopy
I LOVE finding out about different ways to appreciate the Sun and light in general. Use this forum to post your info or questions about various outside the mainstream ways to appreciate our life giving star!

Atmospheric Optics
This is the new home of the former website atoptics.com which disappeared from the net in 2022. While we have nothing to do with the makers of that site, I and thousands of others around the world visited it quite often to get info on different atmospheric conditions caused by the Sun interacting with water and ice in our atmosphere. Hopefully we can reconstruct a lot of it here.

Solar Astronomy Outreach Experiences, Ideas and Techniques
The Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project has been spreading Solar Astronomy via various forms of public outreach since 2008 and strongly encourage members to share their love of everything Solar with others. This forum is for outreach ideas and inspirations, etc. Please tell us how you do it or ask us how.

Sunlit Earth
Lets brighten up peoples live with all those lovely pictures of the world around us!
Moderator: Montana

Solar Software
The place for all your solar software; capture, stacking, post processing, ancillaries etc. It's all up for discussion here!

Solar Astronomy Shop and Swap
VENDORS WELCOME! Please, only solar equipment.

Great American Solar Eclipse August 21 2017
Post anything eclipse related!

SPoD Archive
An archive of all the best images Solar Chat has to offer!

ASTRO IIDC User Group
This is the new home of the ASTRO IIDC user group previously on Yahoo Lists.

Forum Support Issues
I maintain this forum in my free time. The entire purpose of it is to allow you to share your love for solar astronomy. If there is ANYTHING I can do to enhance the forum to better suit your needs, please let me know in this forum.

Forum Rules
A few simple rules that you MUST follow to participate in our forum. I am the "decider guy" and am very reasonable but there are some things that simply cannot be allowed on here. If you have any addendum's or changes that you would like to see to these rules, please post them in the Forum Issues forum.