Your horns are showing! I got some solar viewing in yesterday. Experimenting with gear as always. This time I mounted my 120mm f8 scope and my 80mm f7.5 ...
Looks like serious fun Chris, maybe I can bring these eyepieces back to you at a time when I can take a minute to look through your SolarMax? Just a taste of...
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Of course! If we plan for a noon rendezvous on a sunny day then we might be able to tackle the sun on our lunch hours. According to the Clear Sky Clock, Monday...
-How about solar viewing for the summer, and radio astronomy for those cloudy nights. Im sure Chris can rewire a few satelite TV antennas to image supernovas...
Sounds cool...where do you plan to set up? My solar filter still under construction...but would like a view. See Yall for Astronomy Day...THINK SUN! We are...
I have a permanent pier in my back yard and that is usually where I prefer to set up but I can be versatile too! Just FYI to all, I live in South Anchorage,...
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Clear Sky Clock says that Saturday will be crystal clear until about 2:30 in the afternoon. I hope that prediction holds true! I'll be bringing two solar...
I'm planning to bring my 60 mm Meade with a Baader film filter and my Sun Gun. For anyone that's wondering what I mean by "Sun Gun" here's where I got the...
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I was going to park close, unload, and then move the car farther away. I will be bringing my wife, who will help me with moving and scope security. We will...
It is even looking better than it was yesterday! I hope everyone who can make it to the Anchorage town square tomorrow, does so! -Christopher Erickson...
I too will be bringing some stuff "on the cheap"...I have 2 unfinished projects that I may bring(4 inch bushnell on a dob mount and an AstroCan)...Maybe we...
Argh. Now the clock says cloudy with intermittent sucker-holes and a chance for clear skies around 4pm. Well I guess we can always remove our solar filters and...
Thanks for letting me try out your Halpha views. Very impressive, would have love to try out the tuner on the side of the Coronado filter and try other...
Too bad you couldn't hang around and the skies weren't clearer! The sun is really impressive through the binoviewer with almost any kind of solar filter. I...
I wanted to thank Eli and Steve for bringing together a great Astronomy Day event. Thanks to everyone who brought out their scopes for public viewing. Thanks...