[TAC] 20 min. in the Sun (was Coronado's PST)

From: Rashad Al-Mansour ^lt;ramjam_at_No-Spam>
Date: Wed Aug 04 2004 - 18:28:32 MST

Well the Sun shown for about 20 minutes this evening so I had short session
with the Coronado PST. I was impressed with the scope immediately.

Using the “Tuner” I was able to see very nice Prominences all around the
disk. A very large one was located at about 4 o’clock. Also seen, after
rotating the tuner, was a very long curving filament in the center of the
disk. As I rotated the tuner more I would see hints of plage then finally
sunspots. And all this with mediocre seeing!

I think this puppy will follow me to work tomorrow. :-)

Boy,if I can get my Binoviewer to work...

Rashad
Received on Wed Aug 4 18:29:50 2004


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