Telescopes
Coronado Personal Solar Telescope
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I enjoy Solar observing very much - I use Orion SkyQuest with full
aperture filter and CGE1400 with off-axis solar filter for white light
observing. Coronado PST is very special here since it allows viewing
chromosphere in H-alpha band. All the prominences, plages, filaments and
texture of Solar surface shows up nicely. This is a dedicated Solar
telescope (40mm achromatic refractor) with built-in H-alpha filter with
less than 10Å width. It opened for me completely new world - and i love
it. If only the bigger Solar filters were not that much more expensive
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Most often I use PST as a standalone telescope on a Celestron Alt-Az tripod, but sometimes I piggyback it on CGE1400. CGE1400 can be also used as a Solar telescope with Kendrick off-axis Solar Filter (Baader AstroSolar film). Recently I have used it for Solar imaging during Mercury transit in 2016 with StarlightXpress Lodestar piggybacked on my Orion 10" Newtonian.
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