I brought this up at this evening's SLAS board meeting. The plan is to open the refractor early on public star party evenings to do a bit of Sun viewing. If the lines are not too long we could try a bit of imaging. SLAS may also open the refractor one Saturday afternoon per month for members and guests. For dates and times SLAS members should logon to the SLAS website and check the calendar of events. And for those SLAS members wanting to try some serious solar imaging special solar imaging sessions can also be scheduled. Those need to be scheduled through those who are authorized to use the Daystar filter (I think that's currently Bruce Grim, Roger Butz and me with Dave Bernson and Rodger Fry being added to the list soon). Cheers, patrick On 12 Apr 2010, at 09:22, Chuck Hards wrote:
What I've been working on is using my high-def hard-drive video camcorder coupled afocally. The camera captures full HD video (approximately 2 megapixel resolution, not too bad) and also allows you to manually grab individual frames for stacking and manipulation. I'd be very interested in sun parties at SPOC, Patrick. Situated as it is, next to water and grassy areas, it is much better suited to solar observation than the usual valley locations. I'd even be interested in Saturday morning sun parties, when the seeing is better. On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com>wrote:
Hi Tyler,
Glad to hear you are interested. I'm still trying to get acceptable results with a DSLR but as with most solar system objects, I'm hearing the best way to go is with something that will take a whole slew of images and then let software pick the best. Sounds like what you've got fits the bill.