Testing Full Disk Solar Imaging Telescope
I 've been working on putting together a very small telescope for capturing the full disk of the sun in the Hydrogen alpha wavelength. Actually, I've been working on two different solar astronomy projects. This project should not be confused with building a spectroheliograph which is another project I am working on at the moment. That spectroheliograph project is much more complex than this one. I'm still waiting on the optical parts to arrive from France for that project. In the meantime, I came up with an idea that I had written about here but it wasn't until this morning that I was able to get outside in the sun to test this new setup. When I put together this surprisingly tiny telescope (it is really a small 50mm guide scope), I wasn't sure of the spacing required to get everything to come to focus. I wasn't even completely sure whether I would have success in capturing the full disk of the sun. It was possible that I would still be too magnified and