Today's active regions in WL (Intes M715 first light)

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Today's active regions in WL (Intes M715 first light)

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Unpleasantly hot today, but I managed to test my new Intes M715 (180 mm f/15 Rutten-Maksutov-Cassegrain). I haven't checked the collimation yet, might need some tweaking. The seeing was unfortunately too unstable for an animation:
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These are beautiful ! So far I also have got the best results broad band results with a 180 mm f15 mak from skywatcher. A less noble instrument than your intes, but with good optics after all


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That looks a promising first light, nice pics there!


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cte wrote: Sun Jun 19, 2022 8:15 pm So far I also have got the best results broad band results with a 180 mm f15 mak from skywatcher.
Oh, I don't doubt it - I absolutely loved my "golden tube" SW Mak 180, which I had between 2012-2014 (esp. for the Sun and Jupiter, like here https://astrob.in/23109/0/). I decided to get another one, this time for life :)


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Great first light


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I don't think it's off collimation by much, if any. The granules are resolved with ease!

Nice first light. Congrats!!

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Thank you for your gallery link, excellent images, you're a master in solar imaging


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Love the texture of the surface in that 2nd shot!


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Excellent first run of the new scope.

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Congrats on a really nice first set with this scope. This looks promising for when the seeing collaborates!

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