Curtis Croulet wrote:
The chance to "SolarMax" was before the Meade purchase of Coronado, though
maybe not before backroom negotiations. That is, I'm not claiming that
Meade didn't have some influence on this. My understanding was that there
was a trademark infringement issue with "MaxScope," and Coronado had to
change it.

That may be. After about 2004, I stopped worrying about what the
various products were called.

Anyway, as it happens, I took another look at the Sun on Friday and
sadly, it was not as active as it had been. There was still some
activity high in the northern hemisphere, with a fairly faint but
tallish prominence (maybe 5 Earth diameters) the most obvious sign of
activity.

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