First light Double Stacked Quark H-alpha 17-01-23

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First light Double Stacked Quark H-alpha 17-01-23

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My ever evolving solar H-alpha telescope is now complete.

I've now double stacked it with a naked PST etalon. todays weather was a shocker for imaging but I persevered and got a few captures.

The results are better than I anticipated.

Here are my results.

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Image20230117_054615 by Martin Symonds, on Flickr


Image20230117_054602 by Martin Symonds, on Flickr


ImageScreenshot 2023-01-17 085504 by Martin Symonds, on Flickr

ImageH-alpha_090221_lapl5_ap6262_out by Martin Symonds, on Flickr

ImageH-alpha_090156_lapl5_ap6094_out by Martin Symonds, on Flickr

ImageH-alpha_085657_lapl5_ap8616_out by Martin Symonds, on Flickr


ImageH-alpha_085631_lapl5_ap8916_out by Martin Symonds, on Flickr

ImageH-alpha_085551_lapl5_ap8121_out by Martin Symonds, on Flickr


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Re: First light Double Stacked Quark H-alpha 17-01-23

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Martin these look absolutely fabulous. From the details and proms/filaproms on the limb to the color. Bravo!


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Re: First light Double Stacked Quark H-alpha 17-01-23

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That really is a Howitzer of a scope! Those pics look great!


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Re: First light Double Stacked Quark H-alpha 17-01-23

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rigel123 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 17, 2023 3:05 am That really is a Howitzer of a scope! Those pics look great!
Thanks Warren.


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Re: First light Double Stacked Quark H-alpha 17-01-23

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These are excellent Martin! Nice to watch how your scope has evolved too!


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Re: First light Double Stacked Quark H-alpha 17-01-23

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Excellent results Martin, the double stack is perfect working.


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Re: First light Double Stacked Quark H-alpha 17-01-23

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Thank you Maurits.


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Re: First light Double Stacked Quark H-alpha 17-01-23

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marktownley wrote: ↑Tue Jan 17, 2023 6:36 am These are excellent Martin! Nice to watch how your scope has evolved too!
Thanks Mark


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Re: First light Double Stacked Quark H-alpha 17-01-23

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It's been great to watch the evolution of your scope. You've got to be happy with those results. The evenness across the image is excellent!


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Re: First light Double Stacked Quark H-alpha 17-01-23

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Great evolution and results, Martin. Part of the fun is upgrading and refining your setup and see how that works out.

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Re: First light Double Stacked Quark H-alpha 17-01-23

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Hi Clare & Peter and Franco, thank you for your kind words.


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Re: First light Double Stacked Quark H-alpha 17-01-23

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I see the big spot still has his tail!!

That’s a nice looking scope, Martin!


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Re: First light Double Stacked Quark H-alpha 17-01-23

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Excellent device and great photos.


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Re: First light Double Stacked Quark H-alpha 17-01-23

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Wow. Very nice results.


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Re: First light Double Stacked Quark H-alpha 17-01-23

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Very rewarding results Martin.

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Re: First light Double Stacked Quark H-alpha 17-01-23

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I love your scope, Martin. Congratulations on the double stack mod and nice images.
If you don’t mind me saying, I can see a slight double limb, so you might just need to tweak a bit to get bang on the narrowest bandwidth. I say this because I see the same with my double stacked 150mm refractor and know I have to start the session concentrating my efforts on the limb to optimise tuning. Achieving a single limb does make a difference to the final results.

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Re: First light Double Stacked Quark H-alpha 17-01-23

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Thank you for for your observation Stu, I had noticed that too, my next job will be calibrating the PST etalon relative to the Quark. Now I know roughly where the PST etalon is close to being on band, I can do some tweaking for the optimum results.


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Re: First light Double Stacked Quark H-alpha 17-01-23

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very nice and efficient assembly. Bravo !!!
the Pst stalion is without the front and rear lenses?
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Re: First light Double Stacked Quark H-alpha 17-01-23

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Thanks for your question Paul, it is the bare etalon with both lenses removed.


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Tanck You for your reply
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Re: First light Double Stacked Quark H-alpha 17-01-23

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Very promising results, Martin!

Looking forward to seeing the results when you get things finetuned!

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