Daystar DS 60

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Re: Daystar DS 60

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Cheap Indian copy for solar - Brilliant!
If like to see a tuto on how to machine adapters. They become expensive fast. And not fun to search.


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Re: Daystar DS 60

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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.

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Re: Daystar DS 60

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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

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I hope it still wasn't under warranty....


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Re: Daystar DS 60

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Yes it's out of warranty and the subject of a house insurance claim due to a broken objective.


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Re: Daystar DS 60

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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.

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Re: Daystar DS 60

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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.


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Re: Daystar DS 60

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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.

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Re: Daystar DS 60

Post by Sol seeker uk »

marktownley 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.
I've always felt that the 60/70/90 Coronado was the aperture
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😱🤪


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