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Solar Eclipse April 8th 2024 [34]
This one looks like Celestron from Nexstar SE series
Its the SE 8 model. I bought it for her birthday last year and she loves it:)
@Joker, does your daughter have other photos too?? Of the Moon? Planets? Star clusters? Galaxies? Nebulae?
She has tons of moonshots with her old dobsonian telescope. Thats the one that looks like a big tube. I saw some cool shots from Saturn she took. Now, that the weather is warming up, Im sure shell be going out more often.
@Joker, I'm guessing that she put some solar filter on the telescope?
Of course, or you will fry out the sensor. Youre supposed to take it off when 100% totality occurs. I think she did a job for her first eclipse, its not like you can practice for these things.
Wooooow... So cool!! Are those her photos too??
Those last two are from another astro photographer, really amazing. I wanted to show the solar flares,
Solar flares?
It looked like a tiny red dot and the bottom of the sun and the corona was shimmering and constantly changing. Ive been calling it angel hair light as Im lost for words.
Do you know what make and model that telescope is?
It has a computer star tracking system or you can control it manually.
celestron.com/products/nexstar-8se-computerized-telescope
Aurora Borealis in Northern Michigan
Ill have to check that out someday, but I really want to go to Alaska:)
