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Old March 24th 18, 12:32 AM posted to sci.astro.research
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Default Solar Flare Imaging for Amateurs

Thanks for the reference to the Coronado telescope..

My first steps are to get images. I will begin with
white light and design/buy a remote mounting system. I want
to put a color monitor by my TV set and take video or still images.

The Coronado telescope referenced is obviously the best way
to start imaging a prominence.

I will never be looking thru an eyepiece so cooking the
camera is my only variable.

Scientifically there is little I can add using my images.
Testing sunlight for the existence of correlated light
is possible with a simple interference optics table. But
that is a job for a real scientist. Designing the sensor
to image, in 2D, correlated light is something I can help with
if anybody needs my help to do this. I am a mechanical kind of guy.

I am an artist, btw. I consider a color filtration of
sunlight to be a real artistic creation. I would design
a scheme of filtration using a set of N filters.