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[cbowlsby]

Big fan of my Baader wedge with the Continuum filter.  Someday I will add an HA filter setup to go with it (read, when my kids grow up and I can save a bit of money)

[iseegeorgesstar]

For the entire time I have had a fascination with solar (7yrs now) I have always had nothing but an Ha scope, my reasoning was why do white light if you have Ha? this all changed recently. While at Starfest this past August, I purchased a Baader WL filter for my 128 but even then I was hesitant about it as I kept wondering what else I would see that Ha couldn’t show. Was I ever wrong and my doubts buried when I put on the solar film and pointed the 128 to the sun, the details I could see in every part of the spots was a wake up call. My brain was mush, with a steady atmosphere I was able to use high powers on spots and notice hair like details which I couldn’t make out in Ha. Ever since then I couldn’t use my Lunt without the 128 beside it, going back and forth between the two is solar nirvana, I guess I grew up thinking WL filters just showed a black dot and not much else, if my Baader solar film blows my mind with my 128, I wonder if a wedge would be that much better? I do understand that wedges have the ability to use different wavelength filters which has me curious as ever. Maybe I’ll search out threads here for more info on wedges over films and what the main advantages are. In the meantime, as much as I love Ha, those spots in WL are blowing me away.

I still have to read through this thread, but are you sure it isn't an aperture difference? If I understand your post correctly, it sounds like you're trying to resolve the same level of detail from a scope that's half it's size. Your Takahashi is probably much better figured in red too, no? Some thoughts...

[Stellar1]

I still have to read through this thread, but are you sure it isn't an aperture difference? If I understand your post correctly, it sounds like you're trying to resolve the same level of detail from a scope that's half it's size. Your Takahashi is probably much better figured in red too, no? Some thoughts...

Oh sure, i am aware of the difference in aperture and that the Tak is double the size. Let me clear my post, what i mean to say is for the two apertures im working with, the 128 shows me details in spots which I cannot resolve in the lunt, hence in my situation the two scopes complement each other. If I had a 120mm Ha scope it would be a different story.

Edited by Stellar1, 09 November 2024 - 02:43 PM.

[iseegeorgesstar]

I understand now. It's another larger solar scope. All the same, thanks for sharing your positive experience. Random surprise find like that is how we all grow and makes life very interesting.