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Daystar DS 60
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Re: Daystar DS 60
Very interesting thread ... I've been thinking about removing the quark from my 60SS
However mine displays quite a dark image compared to these , it does offer good
surface detail when the seeing is ok ... the quark unit simply unscrews from the 80SS but
would also require an adaptor of sorts.
Brian
However mine displays quite a dark image compared to these , it does offer good
surface detail when the seeing is ok ... the quark unit simply unscrews from the 80SS but
would also require an adaptor of sorts.
Brian
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Re: Daystar DS 60
Just taken a solar scout etalon assembly to bits, it's a 21mm quark unit masked down to 16mm
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Re: Daystar DS 60
I hope it still wasn't under warranty....
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Re: Daystar DS 60
That's very interesting to see the makeup of the etalon.
Had the Quark unit actually stopped working as well as the broken objective and if so can you see why now you have it apart?
Two years on from atlguy starting this thread and a big learning curve I am now getting much better results from this scope, detailed features on the sun help a lot.
Rod
Had the Quark unit actually stopped working as well as the broken objective and if so can you see why now you have it apart?
Two years on from atlguy starting this thread and a big learning curve I am now getting much better results from this scope, detailed features on the sun help a lot.
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Re: Daystar DS 60
The led in the unit still changes to green in all settings but as the objective is bust I'm unable to confirm if the etalon still works. A visual look shows no problems and its not decontacted.
The lower Andover 656FS02-12.5 is also ok.
The lower Andover 656FS02-12.5 is also ok.
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Re: Daystar DS 60
Hi Moriniboy
If you can get it back together and it still works you could use it on another scope, all you need to do is have an adapter made to fit it to a 2" focuser.
I use my ss60ds Quark on my 6" and 102mm refractors regularly, actually works much better than the daystar scope
Also if the front of the scope is ok, that is the objective comes out ok you should be able to replace it with a cheap 60mm binocular objective as these are nearly always f3.8 to f4 so just get a cheap pair of binos and you also have a spare objective.
If it's not working I would be interested in the Andover filter PM me if it's available.
Cheers Rod
If you can get it back together and it still works you could use it on another scope, all you need to do is have an adapter made to fit it to a 2" focuser.
I use my ss60ds Quark on my 6" and 102mm refractors regularly, actually works much better than the daystar scope
Also if the front of the scope is ok, that is the objective comes out ok you should be able to replace it with a cheap 60mm binocular objective as these are nearly always f3.8 to f4 so just get a cheap pair of binos and you also have a spare objective.
If it's not working I would be interested in the Andover filter PM me if it's available.
Cheers Rod
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Re: Daystar DS 60
I've always felt that the 60/70/90 Coronado was the aperturemarktownley wrote: ↑Thu Apr 09, 2020 8:49 am No offence meant to atlguy and apologies if it comes across that way I was being cynical about Daystar and Coronado, I could have probably got a Lunt swipe in there too You get used to what the use of wavelets looks like in a solar image with experience. Good advice from Rusted above too. The only thing I would add is double check the images being saved from AS3 are in 16bit TIFF format before processing in ImPPG.
Same as the 50/60/80/100/152 from lunt Mark.. but the double stack quote from Daystar I smelled a rat straight away
Anycase.. that image could it be focus as I don't see any active regions, presume with the Daystar scopes they need power to heat the etalon, or is it both etalons