Here comes the Sun Part II: Sun Spot Observation on the Meade ETX-80

The mid-day sun as seen through a Meade ETX-80 telescope, using a Baader AstroSolar safety film over the telescope objective, 2X Barlow lens and a Neximage CCD Imager to capture the video. The dark core (umbra) and lighter filamentary outer region (penumbra) are clearly visible. At the beginning of the video, three much smaller sunspots can be seen to the left of the large ones and another smaller sunspot can be seen to the right near the end. Ignore the two or three 'dust bunnies' on the video (blobs of dirt on the imaging chip that do not move with the passage of the sun).

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[sabrizain]

Didn't do any tracking - the scope was stationery and I just let the video capture software roll. The ETX-80 is pretty hopeless with tracking anyway - it uses a forked mount, so any tracking would produce a pretty jerky video ....

[bongobrawnycampervan]

Nice video

I assume its a goto mount.

How do you track the sun with your meade?