Another "Fantastic" 228 H alpha Scope with an APOD

[Mike]

Another 228mm H alpha scope has been built and resides in Anthem Arizona. The images are so good one has landed on the prestigious APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day via NASA). The proud owner is Randy Shivak. We expect to see great things from this well crafted solar scope. While this image is in white light the ERF and etalon are being built for H alpha imaging. Randy used a Baader 3.8 ND film with UV/IR cut filters with a Flea2 Video ccd camera.

[Mike]

A special thanks goes out to our friends in France, Korea, Poland, Switzerland, Italy, Australia and the US for some beautiful solar scopes, great images and good publicity for Istar Optical.

[jpb30]

Randy is one of my Solar fiend Well deserved this APOD is the second APOD with Istar-OpticalRefractor this Year

JP

[Viktor Z.]

Please, see the Picture of the Day on Astromart website:)

"High Resolution image of AR2297 captured with an ISTAR 228mm F9 refractor and Daystar Quantum PE .5 H-alpha filter and Flea2 video ccd camera" by Randall Shivak.

www.astromart.com and
www.buytelescopes.com/gallery/photo/65222

Viktor