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[Login] Entrance · Main Index · Search · New user · Who's Online FAQ · Calendar Equipment Discussions >> ATM, Optics and DIY Forum Previous   Index   Next   Threaded   Pages: 1 | 2 | (show all) highfnum Carpal Tunnel Reged: 09/06/06 Loc: NE USA Re: self made coronograph [Re: highfnum]       #5658751 - 02/02/13 07:18 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   i would not know how to make such a clean polished cone anyway thats whats cool about Davidg atm stuff real easy available stuff that works and easy to get the 2 items that cost were 10A filter(200) and iris(50) Post Extras:       philippe tosi member Reged: 01/25/13 Re: self made coronograph [Re: highfnum]       #5659383 - 02/03/13 05:47 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Hi, thank's a lot for answers the lens wich support the cone is an aspherical lens, because i wanted less lens as possible to shoot solar corona at Pic du Midi observatory. (with 5300 A filter) a doublet is also good. the cone is in stainless steel (polished) H-alpha filter was buyed at Melles GRIOT approx 3000 $ (very very expensive !) with 5 Angstroem bandpass here an new image with the 95 mm one regards Edited by philippe tosi (02/03/13 06:18 AM) Post Extras:       highfnum Carpal Tunnel Reged: 09/06/06 Loc: NE USA Re: self made coronograph [Re: philippe tosi]       #5659467 - 02/03/13 07:42 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Pretty as a bee nice shot What was total cost of your coronagraph Have you tried to see corona Post Extras:       philippe tosi member Reged: 01/25/13 Re: self made coronograph [Re: highfnum]       #5659862 - 02/03/13 12:06 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   total cost for the 95mm 800 euros (when the h-alpha filter was not very expensive approx 700 euros and 100 euros for the doublet 25/100 situed just after the filter) total cost for the 150 mm approx 1400 euros. i have not still see the solar corona... Post Extras:       neo Carpal Tunnel Reged: 02/12/08 Loc: Iasi, Romania Re: self made coronograph [Re: philippe tosi]       #5660284 - 02/03/13 04:22 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Phillipe, again superb images. I start thinking more and more on building a coronagraph myself. I've checked last night in OSLO how the singlet objective works and the PCX version as mentioned by Phillipe is great. My specs were for a 100mm lens f/15, 10mm thick, with the convex side aspherized to -0.6. The diagrams looked very good (to my eye ) for 656.27 wavelenght. I'd like to design farther the whole scope in OSLO but I'm not sure how to set an oculting cone or other options so the field lens and the diaphragm work right. So far the results were very strange sign I wasn't doing something right. On the other hand aspherizing the field lens doesn't seem to do much. I'll try learning more . Post Extras:       DAVIDG Post Laureate Reged: 12/02/04 Loc: Hockessin, De Re: self made coronograph [Re: neo]       #5660336 - 02/03/13 04:51 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Alex, Be sure you check the off axis coma of your objective design. The Sun is 0.5 degree in diameter and since your viewing from the limb outward when the Sun is centered, coma will be an issue. A double convex singlet can be designed to be "bent" to be coma free and then you aspherize either the front or the back to correct it for spherical aberration. I chose to use an achromat, because it was both corrected for coma and spherical aberration across the field of view I needed. - Dave Post Extras:       neo Carpal Tunnel Reged: 02/12/08 Loc: Iasi, Romania Re: self made coronograph [Re: DAVIDG]       #5660397 - 02/03/13 05:23 PM Attachment (25 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Well, I set a 1.5 degree field and the off axis coma is well within the Airy disk. Post Extras:       neo Carpal Tunnel Reged: 02/12/08 Loc: Iasi, Romania Re: self made coronograph [Re: neo]       #5663980 - 02/05/13 05:16 PM Attachment (27 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   The past few days I've tryed to fiddle a bit with the numbers (read 'stay up till 2am' ) in OSLO, with my little knowledge of serious optical design, to see how a coronagraph would look like with Phellipe's prescription. Till now all I can say he's right on the money I've used the same 4" f/15 lens as shown above and added the field lens and the reimaging doublet (two of them). I didn't use the diaphragm (its place is very easy to spot) partially becouse I didn't know how to introduse it in OSLO and secondly becouse I wanted to see what is the aberration response of the whole system. And the diaphragm doesn't quite form any image just stops the stray light from the edge of the main objective (maybe I'm wrong here , I'm not sure). The first impretion was of great amazement. How can one build such a delicat instrument and be abble to see anything just with off the shelf lenses? The whole graphs were all over the places. So after struggling with numbers and compromises I've found out that Phillipe was so right in a number of places. Fisrt of all the main lens, a PCX lens with a mild asphere on the convex side I've seen it before, it works. Now the field lens; it also needs aspherization, a pretty strong one, like a secondary in a Cass becouse this is one way to keep the field curvature low. Also the distance between the oculting cone and field lens also determines the field radius. The same thing with the distance between the field lens and the reimaging doublets. So you get three main ways of reducing the field curvature which have to be kept in equillibrum so the aberrations don't go up in the sky. I've discovered that by using just one reimaging doublet was a total mess, at least with those I've found in OSLO's data base so I've used two facing the front lenses. This way the aberrations were much lower and the advantage that the Ha filter can be sealed between the two lenses so no exposure to the elements. The doublets are 40mm/180mm. It is a trully delicat instrument, everything must be mounted very precisely, just one milimeter off and it changes a lot on how the scope performs. Edited by neo (02/05/13 05:22 PM) Post Extras:       Ed Jones Carpal Tunnel Reged: 04/06/04 Loc: Sin-sin-atti Re: self made coronograph [Re: neo]       #5674513 - 02/11/13 05:36 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Question: Used as a coronograph is a more narrow bandpass preferable? Can a filter narrow enough enough to see disk prominences take spectacular shots like Philippe's? Post Extras:       DAVIDG Post Laureate Reged: 12/02/04 Loc: Hockessin, De Re: self made coronograph [Re: Ed Jones]       #5675479 - 02/12/13 09:49 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Ed, The narrower the band pass the better the contrast up to about 1.5A for prominences. The reason is that the prominence can have a large Doppler shift which makes various parts of them emit at different wavelengths. If the bandpass is too narrow parts of the prom. can become invisible. Once you have a band pass of about 1.5A thou you don't need an occulting disk to see prominences in great detail, just a well designed optical system with the least amount of scatter. A f/30 system designed around a well corrected singlet or doublet will work very well. So I good quality 60mm to 80mm f/15 refractor with a 2x barlow and Herschel Wedge does a great job for prom viewing. If you want to block the disk of the Sun, all you need is Kellner eyepiece and place an occulting bar or disk at the location of the field stop. The reason why coronagraphic optics were used to make a promscope is that the filters available for many years had bandpass of few angstroms or more. In the 1950's to get to about 4 angstrom bandpass required a Quartz monochrometer until coating technology improved and allowed interference filters to be made with band pass of few angstroms. At 4 angstroms you still needed an optical system to remove scattered light to make the proms visible under normal conditions. The problem was that interference filters were expensive and they had a limited life time of only a few years before the coatings went bad. Coating technology has improved, so much narrower filters using multi-cavities can be made much cheaper and with greater life. You can get a 1.5A filter from Ebay for $130 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Optical-Interference-Filter-656-3-H-Alpha-0-15nm-Band... To answer your question, yes a filter with narrower band pass designed to show H-alpha disk details can be used to take excellent prom images. For both proms and surface detail imaging, a filter with a band pass of about 0.7A works well. I have Daystar and PST that have a bandpass of this value and also a homemade coronagraph and home made 0.7A filter system. - Dave Post Extras:       philippe tosi member Reged: 01/25/13 Re: self made coronograph [Re: DAVIDG]       #5675614 - 02/12/13 11:11 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   hi, you'll find here differents elements of the both coronographes for the 150 mm F/15 second lens+cone 64 mm F/2 for the 95 mm F/15 second lens+cone 80 mm F/2 doublet 25mm diam F=100mm diaph 10 mm all mounted and adaptable on both coronographes finally h-alpha filter 0.5 nm of bandpass diam 25mm an other flame... others images http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/5661651/page... and http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/5643847/page... and http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/5643890/page... regards Edited by philippe tosi (02/12/13 03:06 PM) Post Extras:       Ed Jones Carpal Tunnel Reged: 04/06/04 Loc: Sin-sin-atti Re: self made coronograph [Re: DAVIDG]       #5675754 - 02/12/13 12:30 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Dave, Yea I have a PST with a bad filter. Rather than spending the money to get it fixed I might build something like this. I never saw anything like Philippe's shots even when it was working. Post Extras:       highfnum Carpal Tunnel Reged: 09/06/06 Loc: NE USA Re: self made coronograph [Re: philippe tosi]       #5676472 - 02/12/13 07:38 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   How much did you pay for that 5A filter? Post Extras:       philippe tosi member Reged: 01/25/13 Re: self made coronograph [Re: highfnum]       #5677145 - 02/13/13 07:40 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   hi, 2 years ago approx 700 euros H.T (melles griot) but now approx 3000 euros H.T incredible !!! not funny ! so i have to see an other saler... Post Extras:       Pages: 1 | 2 | (show all) Previous   Index   Next   Threaded   Extra information 5 registered and 18 anonymous users are browsing this forum. 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