\nAdded a new astrophotograph to my album. Thanks to my new more portable telescope MEADE ETX-80 ($210), I can now easily set it up at night or even in my room to get a quick glimpse of the Sun. The only slight unfortunate event was I was too careless as to how much the Sun's heat could become under such convergence and when I realized that the internal Barlow was stuck, I quickly stopped and detect the burnt rubbery to confirm what had happened.\n<\/p>\n
\nGood thing after cooling down for a bit, I could flip the Barlow lens on and off but I do have to push the lens directly off the view inside-not too much trouble, just now I have to deal with it...perhaps the whole mechanism would still be fixable by time or some oil treatment but I shall handle that in the future.\n<\/p>\n
\nDid a comparison with SOHO's latest solar take, Sunspots seem different than mine. Now I would like to know how fast Sun spots move\/change.\n<\/p>\n
\nTempting to get a solar filter for a more direct view, but I'm still a bit cowardly paranoid of direct eye contact and those filters ain't cheap. So I'd just stick with wall projection with the scope for now.\n<\/p>\n
\nSunspots activity was so dormant, practically non-existence in the past few years that having to witness them on my first try at solar projection is rather exciting.\n<\/p>\n
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