Sunspot by Tasco
This is my solar projector setup I put together recently, a Tasco 60 mm x 700 mm refractor scope from a yard sale with a 12.5mm Huygens eyepiece with some wooden pieces and a piece of steel tubing from a folding chair made up for the sun shield and the projector screen assembly. I'm going to take it out to some events I've been invited to soon when it's clear and show off the Sun live. I have to build a cage around the screen before I take it public so no one can get their eye up to the eyepiece end..
Got a picture of a sunspot today with it, my phone camera seems to do a better job than anything else I have of taking the picture of the projected image. There are several smaller spots around the main one, they were quite clear projected out but didn't photograph very well, the granulation of the solar surface did show up better than I had anticipated though.
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Very clever of you.
Congrats!
I wanted one of these so bad when I was a kid.
This ad is from the seventies or early eighties I think but they were one of about three or four big names when I was just getting into this late fifties, early sixties.
Now I'm retired I get to roll my own, I enjoy the scavenging and hacking about as much as using my little widgets.
