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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 4053847, member: 76194&quot;]That puts my solar telescope to shame.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1062175[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>With mine all I can resolve is sunspots, large filaments,&nbsp; and solar flares (though very faint), and it all requires a lot of patience. People don&#039;t realize it because of the brightness, but the sun is a very small target. With my 45mm telescope the sun only comes across the size of a golf ball in the eyepiece. Any smaller and I wouldn&#039;t be able to observe the flares or filaments...which makes my telescope an entry level H-Alpha solar telescope. But don&#039;t be fooled, entry level is still expensive. My whole kit, with the extra filter and all, is a $1,300+ package. Proper solar astronomy is expensive because the filters are expensive.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1062289[/ATTACH] </p><p>This extra filter alone is $500. And you can&#039;t use it for anything else other than solar observations.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;The sun is not an easy thing to view in high details because of the brightness which can blind you in an instance without proper equipment.&nbsp; You could do it on the cheap with a mylar filter on a regular telescope, but all you&#039;d see is visible light (ie. a gray disk and any sunspots if there even happen to be any). If you want the real detailed surface view, and see flares and filaments, you got to pony up for H-Alpha capable telescope like mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>I definitely am properly jealous of what that large solar telescope can do.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1062207[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, here is a Sol Invictus on a coin[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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