Hello all: this morning a brief session in a sunny, windy, cold day, temperature 36F and poor seeing. The WL is an experiment with a $20 visual filter I bought for the 2017 eclipse: I will try to get a better one, maybe a Baader 3.8. Good for some imaging anyway ! I used the 72mm ED scope for both images.
Franco
Sun November 20, 2022
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Re: Sun November 20, 2022
Franco,
As usual your CaH image is tops. Absolutely beautiful! And the white light image turned out well for a 20 dollar filter.
James
As usual your CaH image is tops. Absolutely beautiful! And the white light image turned out well for a 20 dollar filter.
James
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Re: Sun November 20, 2022
Looks good Franco!
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Re: Sun November 20, 2022
Absolutely super!! 
and amazing what you can achieve with a visual filter too 
just goes to show we don't necessarily need everything to be expensive.
Alexandra
and amazing what you can achieve with a visual filter too just goes to show we don't necessarily need everything to be expensive.Alexandra
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Re: Sun November 20, 2022
Superb pictures.
I do not look at the sky with the eyes of an astronomer, but of a person looking for the beauty of nature.
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Re: Sun November 20, 2022
Hello Franco.
Well good captures and I'm wondering what the " $20 visual filter " actually is ??
Do you not posses a Wedge and a Variable-Polarizing filter for the 72mm scope ??
My SW 80ED + Lunt 1.25" Wedge with a Variable Polarizing Filter on the camera, seemed to work well..
Adjusting the VarPolFilter should allow for better contrast (by experimenting) and also save any Stopping Down the scope too..
Regards
Terry
Well good captures and I'm wondering what the " $20 visual filter " actually is ??
Do you not posses a Wedge and a Variable-Polarizing filter for the 72mm scope ??
My SW 80ED + Lunt 1.25" Wedge with a Variable Polarizing Filter on the camera, seemed to work well..
Adjusting the VarPolFilter should allow for better contrast (by experimenting) and also save any Stopping Down the scope too..
Regards
Terry
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Re: Sun November 20, 2022
Great Cak Franco, ED72's are amazing little scopes.
Martin
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Re: Sun November 20, 2022
Thank you Terry, Steve, Martin and Maurits. Terry: I am very happy to see that you seem better and more active on the forum. Best wishes going forward ! 
I looked more closely at the "visual filter" and it is actually a 4" Orion E-Safety series filter made by Rainbow Symphony, one of our previous sponsors. Inexpensive, the filter case is made of carton. I bought it on Amazon back then for $20 but it is now listed at $32.99. @ Martin: I love my Evostar72mm ED. It is one of the best values in terms of quality/price ratio out there, in my opinion. I use it all the time and I am very happy with the results.
Franco
I looked more closely at the "visual filter" and it is actually a 4" Orion E-Safety series filter made by Rainbow Symphony, one of our previous sponsors. Inexpensive, the filter case is made of carton. I bought it on Amazon back then for $20 but it is now listed at $32.99. @ Martin: I love my Evostar72mm ED. It is one of the best values in terms of quality/price ratio out there, in my opinion. I use it all the time and I am very happy with the results.Franco
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Re: Sun November 20, 2022
Nice disks here Franco!
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Re: Sun November 20, 2022
The Ca II image is nice Franco !
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Re: Sun November 20, 2022
Thank you Mark and Christian. The seeing at the beginning of the day was not that bad.
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