Shipped on Monday, arrived on Thursday, just in time for rain. Comes with a spare thumb screw, and Allen wrenches for the solar finder.
Installed on a GP mount this morning, there's supposed to be some breaks in the cloud cover.
I tried a few Plossl's and then an 18m Radian. The Radian is much better. The view is much brighter than the PST I used in the summer. Can see prominences immediately. Maybe 3/4 to 1 turn on the etalon adjustment, and the surface is showing detail. Can see about half the details on the NSO images.
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The solar finder was not aligned. Solved that in about 15 seconds.
Focuser is great, but could use a tension/friction adjustment. Definitely better than a helical focuser or the PST focuser.
The 1.25" tube on the front of the blocking filter could be longer. But it's connected by T-thread, so just use an T-extension.
Dovetail should be placed further back on the tube. The OTA is back heavy.
After looking at the sun for over an hour, I tried the iPhone. Exposure control is not great, so I can only get prominences. I'll work on that later. For now, I'll keep staring at the sun.
Eric.
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Congrats on the new toy Eric!
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Congrats on the new scope. Vancouver Canada or U.S.A.?
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Thanks guys. Yes, it's risky buying new telescopes out here on the 'wet' coast. (in Canada, Bill).
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congratulations! what fun!! and a super image with the iPhone too. I can feel the excitement in your post
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Thanks Eric me too Poco lol
Lunt pressure tuned 60mm
Orion ST 80mm
Bausch and Lomb 90mm
Quark Chromosphere / 130mm ERF
Antlia 35mm prism with 1.25" cak filter
Starfield 2" herschel wedge
Celestron 10x42 white light binos
various Barlows and Filters
Player one :
Neptune M IMX 178m
Apollo M IMX 174m
Apollo Mini IMX 429m
Apollo -M Max IMX 432m
Sky Watcher SolarQuest
EQ 5 Black
Orion ST 80mm
Bausch and Lomb 90mm
Quark Chromosphere / 130mm ERF
Antlia 35mm prism with 1.25" cak filter
Starfield 2" herschel wedge
Celestron 10x42 white light binos
various Barlows and Filters
Player one :
Neptune M IMX 178m
Apollo M IMX 174m
Apollo Mini IMX 429m
Apollo -M Max IMX 432m
Sky Watcher SolarQuest
EQ 5 Black