Dave Mitsky
05-September-2004, 02:56 PM
I observed the Sun with my friend Tony Donnangelo on Thursday afternoon from approximately 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. EDT (19:00 to 20:00 UT). It was his first look through my Coronado Personal Solar Telescope and he was rather impressed. We compared it to his Lumicon Solar Prominence filter mated with his 102mm Takahashi FS-102 apochromat. It really was no contest. The PST displayed prominences far more readily and with greater definition. The Lumicon filter is not capable of showing filaments and other features of the chromosphere due to its high bandpass.
Using the PST I saw 4 loop prominences, more than I'd ever seen before simultaneously. One, located on the leading limb, was very narrow and elongated.
I was able to employ a few more eyepieces with the PST for the first time including a 14mm Radian, an 8mm Lanthanum Superwide, and a 5.2mm Pentax XL. Tony's Pentax did a good job and provided my favorite "high power" view so far. Also used were my 8-24mm Vixen zoom and 12mm CEMAX.
Dave Mitsky
Using the PST I saw 4 loop prominences, more than I'd ever seen before simultaneously. One, located on the leading limb, was very narrow and elongated.
I was able to employ a few more eyepieces with the PST for the first time including a 14mm Radian, an 8mm Lanthanum Superwide, and a 5.2mm Pentax XL. Tony's Pentax did a good job and provided my favorite "high power" view so far. Also used were my 8-24mm Vixen zoom and 12mm CEMAX.
Dave Mitsky