Unistellar makes solar observng easy!
Taken by Dr. J. Wayne Wooten on September 21, 2023 @
Pensacola, Florida
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Most of my solar observing is with my Lunt 60 DS, but for groups, I love the ability of my evScope eQ1 to allow up to 10 observers to tune in on the Sun at once in the daytime. Obviously popular as the apartial eclipse comes up in three weeks!
I use a 3" off axis baader filter with my eVscope, and get nice granulation. Now Unistellar has added a "solar finder and tracker" feature to the Unistellar download, and it worked great today! In a minute, the scope homed in and centered the solar disk (alas, a little too big for my eQ1...buy the eQ2 if you want all of the Sun and Moon), and despite poor seeing and having to fine tune the focus, still got granulation and many sunspots today.
Big spiral group at top left is AR 3435. Much smaller is AR 3440 to left, and AR 3438 and AR 3441 (almost central). Farther right top atr AR 3433, 3436, and on right limb, Ar 3429. To bottom right, AR 3437 is near the limb, and to the left bottom limb, AR 3439 and AR 3440 (jist coming on disk).
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