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

From: Rashad Al-Mansour ^lt;ramjam_at_No-Spam>
Date: Wed Aug 04 2004 - 18:56:29 MST

Hi R.C.

>From what I've seen so far, I think this piece of equipment will not end in
the "not useful" pile. Can't wait to give the thing a real shake down over
several hours with various eyepiece combinations.

Rashad

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Richard Crisp" <rdcrisp@No-Spam>
Reply-To: "Richard Crisp" <rdcrisp@No-Spam>
To: "Rashad Al-Mansour" <ramjam@No-Spam>
Subject: Re: [TAC] 20 min. in the Sun (was Coronado's PST)
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 18:47:01 -0700

i remember when i bought my lumicon prominence filter how much fun it was. I
used it with my TV101 and my C14 both. it was really awesome. You will have
a blast with it. I still need to figure out how to image with it.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rashad Al-Mansour" <ramjam@No-Spam>
To: <sf-bay-tac@No-Spam>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 6:28 PM
Subject: [TAC] 20 min. in the Sun (was Coronado's PST)

> 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 18:59:39 2004


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