20081223 Sun

Cleaned up everything today and I'll have a long vacation! Enjoy the sunshine in the relatively cold weather. Seeing very poor at 2/10, transparency not bad at 5/10.

Telescope: Borg 45ED II
Filter: Solarmax 40 with BF10
Camera: DMK 31AF03
Mount: Meade LXD55

1459 (GMT+8):-


1500 (GMT+8):-

20081218 Sun

Seeing is poor at 2/10 due to the low angle, transparency is 7/10.

Telescope: Borg 45ED II
Filter: Coronado Solarmax 40 with BF10
Camera: DMK31AF03.AS
Mount: Meade LXD55

1616 (GMT+8):-


1617 (GMT+8):-

20081214 Sun

Seeing 5/10, transparency 2-3/10. The sun is quite silent in H-alpha.

Telescope: Borg 45ED II
Filter: Coronado Solarmax 40 with BF10, PST etalon (double stacked)
Camera: DMK 31AF03.AS
Mount: Meade LXD55

1531 (GMT+8):-


Telescope: Celestron C5
Filter: PST etalon, Cheapy ERF, BF10
Camera: DMK 31AF03.AS
Mount: Meade LXD55

1553 (GMT+8):-


1556 (GMT+8):-

20081213 white light sun

Cloudy basically, but got a brief gap (not real gap, but just moment with thinner cloud). Canon 450D, Canon 200mm f2.8L with Kenko 2x, Thousand Oaks White Light Type 2+, through the window, very poor quality.



Resized to hide the poor quality.

Goodbye my Pentax PCF III 10x50

This is my first telescope.

I didn't sell it, but instead, I give it to someone who will find it useful. It's always nice to be able to let someone else to use it. I didn't use it as active as before, and I always wish that it will be used under starry night.

It has been with me for uncountable hiking, camping trips. It has been with me for overseas trip, even my honeymoon to Egypt, to Inner Mongolia, etc.

Goodbye my lovely first telescope.

20081201 JVM

Jupiter, Venus and the Moon formed a smiling face. This is not taken by me, but I called my wife who was at home by then, she took this snapshot with our Konica Minolta Z5 hand held.



Taken in home@walnut.