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- From: cecil@physics.unc.edu (Gerald Cecil)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: H-alpha imaging of the sun
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 19:34:54 GMT
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- We have an Aero-Ektar 610 mm fl camera lens attached to the barrel of
- our 0.6m campus telescope. It's not doing much at the moment (given that
- we are downtown in a rapidly growing community), so I'm interfacing it
- to our CCD for student projects. One daytime project I had in mind was
- H-alpha solar imaging ... the pixel scale & CCD format is such that it
- just about fills the f.o.v. I'd use a full aperture Mylar filter to
- attenuate flux down to 1/10,000, then place an interference filter a few
- inches from the CCD focal plane. We have a 40 Angstrom FWHM filter. The
- narrowest interference filter we can reasonably afford is about 10 Angstroms
- FWHM. Is this going to be narrow enough to see photospheric details with good
- contrast, or do I need to use a birefringent crystal w/ <5 Angstrom bandpass?
- (Conditions are probably too hazy here to see prominences under any
- circumstances.) The 10 Ang. filter costs about $700, the crystal ~$2500.
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- Gerald Cecil cecil@wrath.physics.unc.edu 919-962-7169
- Physics & Astronomy, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255 USA
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