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| The Sun on June 29, 2017. AR 2664 is visible above and to the left of center |
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Eclipse prep 2
Yesterday, I deforked the ETX90 OTA. I found an old dovetail and adapted it by drilling a couple of new holes in it (the existing holes were about a tenth of an inch too close together for the ETX--Murphy's Law, I guess). I mounted it on the EQ Pro and took a few images--including that below:
I was surprised by the image scale, compared to the ST-80--although an 80mm f/4 scope will obviously give a much bigger FOV than a 90mm f/13.8 scope. It's nice to have the 90 back in use again (I'll try some lunar and planetary images later), but the choice for eclipse scope is pretty clear: the ST-80 will provide a much better platform to image the corona.
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