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First nice day in a while

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great day today...excellent transparency and very calm condition...about 60 degrees...nice day to pull out the equipment...I made an adjustment for stacking equipment together...


[attachment:1]Sunstack.jpg[/attachment

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orion optics 300mm dall Kirkham f12 with baader white light
stellarvue 90mm raptor with lunt CAK filter
Lunt ls60 pt with 50mm double stack..

at this time of year the sun falls between two trees and I only get about 90 minutes of imaging time..
didn't have time to get to some ha shots today...

here's a white light shot of the central sunspot with the dall Kirkham at 3600mm and celestorn skyris 445m camera best of 200 images


[attachment:2]Sun 12 15 13.jpg[/attachment]


and CAK shot with the raptor and skyris composite of 5 images







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A fine setup and fine images! 8)


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Great shots and gear :thumbsup:


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Great setup and mighty fine images.
You need to add one thing - A Chainsaw.


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Hi Jamie

what a gun. Fine pics


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Super close up and magnificent CaK :bow:

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Good shootin! :thumbsup:


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actually the one tree on the right can and should be cut down....i'll probably get that done soon...


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