The "Eclipsomatic " or another use for a spotting scope
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 11:16 am
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The "Eclipsomatic " or another use for a spotting scope
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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
Re: The "Eclipsomatic " or another use for a spotting scope
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 11:51 am
cool, it was all cloudy in Cambridge so we couldn't see it at all
Alan
Alan
Re: The "Eclipsomatic " or another use for a spotting scope
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:35 pm
Top marks from me 
Re: The "Eclipsomatic " or another use for a spotting scope
Posted: 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.. 
Re: The "Eclipsomatic " or another use for a spotting scope
Posted: 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
A
Re: The "Eclipsomatic " or another use for a spotting scope
Posted: 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)
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)
Re: The "Eclipsomatic " or another use for a spotting scope
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 2:03 pm
Hmm - didn't notice that one, but we could see a brighter spot near the edge.DOGGER2UK wrote:ashmcc wrote:We did something similar:
Did you see the spot on the sun's surface?
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.
A
Re: The "Eclipsomatic " or another use for a spotting scope
Posted: 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)
Mystery solved: what you thought was muck in the scope was actually the International Space Station
http://www.astrophoto.fr/eclipse-iss-20150320.html
A
Re: The "Eclipsomatic " or another use for a spotting scope
Posted: 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.