First light Lunt60 MT

[Rob63]

A new toy has come my way and, as I had never used a pressure tuner before, I was happy to do some cloud dodging this lunchtime.
I had a nice session using an 8mm TV plossl focused on AR3615 and some fine prominence's on the Eastern limb.

As I said I haven't used a PT before, only tilt tune etalons or my Quark so I was in single stack mode to get the hang of it. Think I am pretty on band, or as close as I can get by eye in these poor conditions (clouds whizzing through with 40mph winds), so I decided to grab some images of AR3615 as it was flaring away and I was getting phone alerts from the spaceweather app.

Lunt 60 MT, B1200, Camera ASI290MM with 1.5x barlow for ~0.92"/pixel all on a manual mount with slow-mo controls.
Captured in Firecapture, 16Bit mode to try and cope with the flaring.

2024-03-23-1414-Ha-AR13615-mono.jpg (459.64 KiB) Viewed 320 times

"RGB"

2024-03-23-1414-Ha-AR13615-RGB.jpg (621.02 KiB) Viewed 320 times

[marktownley]

Congratulations on the new toy Rob. Nice image from it.

[rigel123]

Looks good for a SS Rob!

[MAURITS]

Well done Rob with that new setup.

[nicspenceryork]

How exciting! Brilliant news, have fun!
Nic

[DeepSolar64]

Very nice view from the Lunt 60 MT. I am currently struggling to see through and between clouds with my Coronado SMII60 and my visual view of AR13615 looks very similar.

James

[xinghai]

Great!

[cybermayberry]

Off to a great start, looking good.

[Peterm]

Well done, you are off to a great start!

[OlegLviv]

You can do it your equipment can more!

[Davidm]

Well done there. Looks like you’ll have fun with that!

[ffellah]

Congratulations on your new scope, nice first image Rob.

Franco

[arnedanielsen]

Congrats on you new scope, Rob! Very nice first light!