The "Eclipsomatic " or another use for a spotting scope

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DOGGER2UK · #1 Post by **DOGGER2UK** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 11:16 am

Found another use for the spotting scope this morning. All went well to start with but thick cloud came over at the total eclipse so I missed the main event. Fun all the same

#2 Post by **20series** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 11:51 am

cool, it was all cloudy in Cambridge so we couldn't see it at all

Alan

#3 Post by **Christel** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:35 pm

Top marks from me

#4 Post by **ovenpaa** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:35 pm

Great pictures, good to hear other parts of the UK managed to see it as well. I wanted to try with a pinhole system however I got distracted..

ashmcc · #5 Post by **ashmcc** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 4:39 pm

We did something similar:

Used our Kowa TSN-1 - and could really see the colour fringing on the non-prominar optics. Now I know why proper telescope people spend the big money on fancy glass...

A

DOGGER2UK · #6 Post by **DOGGER2UK** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 5:58 pm

[quote="ashmcc"]We did something similar:

Did you see the spot on the sun's surface? At first I thought it was some muck in the scope,but then I realized that it was moving.(its in the top quarter)

ashmcc · #7 Post by **ashmcc** » Sat Mar 21, 2015 2:03 pm

DOGGER2UK wrote:
ashmcc wrote:We did something similar:

Did you see the spot on the sun's surface?

Hmm - didn't notice that one, but we could see a brighter spot near the edge.
I was surprised at how fast the sun was tracking across the sky - we had to keep adjusting the scope to keep it in view. Makes perfect sense if you do the maths, but I didn't expect the projection to move so fast.

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ashmcc · #8 Post by **ashmcc** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 5:48 pm

DOGGER2UK wrote:
ashmcc wrote:We did something similar:

Did you see the spot on the sun's surface? At first I thought it was some muck in the scope,but then I realized that it was moving.(its in the top quarter)
spot RESIZE.jpg

Mystery solved: what you thought was muck in the scope was actually the International Space Station

http://www.astrophoto.fr/eclipse-iss-20150320.html

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DOGGER2UK · #9 Post by **DOGGER2UK** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 6:41 pm

I must say I like yours better than the explanation I found on tinternet.

People in the UK were treated to a partial solar eclipse this morning. But several observers spotted some strange black dots on the sun (shown left). These were sunspots, caused by concentrations of magnetic fields (close-up bottom right, previous image top right). They are sometimes associated with eruptions such as solar flares. And they can be more than ten times as big as Earth.

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