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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3863563, member: 76194"]Yeah, that won't cut it. What I'm using is barely adequate to see solar prominences and other solar storms. It's a Coronado PST 45MM H-Alpha solar telescope. I can see the sun the size of a golf ball. Although sun spots stand out beautifully, solar prominences are quite small and require careful observation. I sometimes use a Barlow x2 lense, which helps make out the details of solar prominences a little better. Don't expect NASA quality photos. Everything is small and requires a good eye and patience to resolve properly, but seeing your patience rewarded with a glimpse of a solar storm is thrilling. Still, that's as good as you can do for solar observation for under $1000. The telescope typically runs $750. I do have a $500 filter extension that helps to just resolve solar filaments, but that was not necessary for the observations I did today, plus if you buy it all at once the entire package is $1,200 instead of $1,350 if you buy them separate.</p><p><br /></p><p>A better H-Alpha solar telescope will run around $1,600 ($2,100 if you add the additional filter for shorter H-Alpha wavelength) and at that price you'll be able to see the sun the size of an orange, and it will be a lot easier to make out filaments and prominences... but you probably have to invest another $300 just to get a proper stand for it....<b>and $1,900 (or $2,400 with additional filter) was not in my budget at the time</b>.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Sadly H-Alpha solar observation is expensive. As an alternative you could always try a $50 solar filter on your regular $200 or $300 astronomy telescope, but all you'll be able to see with that is the visible light spectrum, so its only for sunspots. It won't let you see any prominences or filaments, or any other solar storms, so you'll miss out on 2/3 of the fun of solar observation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3863563, member: 76194"]Yeah, that won't cut it. What I'm using is barely adequate to see solar prominences and other solar storms. It's a Coronado PST 45MM H-Alpha solar telescope. I can see the sun the size of a golf ball. Although sun spots stand out beautifully, solar prominences are quite small and require careful observation. I sometimes use a Barlow x2 lense, which helps make out the details of solar prominences a little better. Don't expect NASA quality photos. Everything is small and requires a good eye and patience to resolve properly, but seeing your patience rewarded with a glimpse of a solar storm is thrilling. Still, that's as good as you can do for solar observation for under $1000. The telescope typically runs $750. I do have a $500 filter extension that helps to just resolve solar filaments, but that was not necessary for the observations I did today, plus if you buy it all at once the entire package is $1,200 instead of $1,350 if you buy them separate. A better H-Alpha solar telescope will run around $1,600 ($2,100 if you add the additional filter for shorter H-Alpha wavelength) and at that price you'll be able to see the sun the size of an orange, and it will be a lot easier to make out filaments and prominences... but you probably have to invest another $300 just to get a proper stand for it....[B]and $1,900 (or $2,400 with additional filter) was not in my budget at the time[/B].:( Sadly H-Alpha solar observation is expensive. As an alternative you could always try a $50 solar filter on your regular $200 or $300 astronomy telescope, but all you'll be able to see with that is the visible light spectrum, so its only for sunspots. It won't let you see any prominences or filaments, or any other solar storms, so you'll miss out on 2/3 of the fun of solar observation.[/QUOTE]
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