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Telescope: Coronado 60mm Solarmax II
Camera: Revolution Imager R2 w/ IR cut filter & 2x barlow
Image source: Two 10 Sec AVI video
Date: 6/12/2020

Sunspot AR-2765 is seen directly below the prominence near the bottom of the image.

ImageHuge Prominence Lift-off & Sunspot AR-2765 by Greg Cisko, on Flickr
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Great image Greg. One of the best I have ever seen.
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Excellent capture !! You have certainly displayed the capabilities of the Solarmax 60
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Solsearcher wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2020 8:09 pm Excellent capture !! You have certainly displayed the capabilities of the Solarmax 60
Thanks. My 60mm is double stacked. At one point I heard that it may not be best to image with the double stack in place. Is there anything to that? I haven't removed the double stack once I installed it, and don't really want to.

Thanks in advance for any advice.
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That's really cool!
Thanks for posting :)
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I see an acrobat!
Just call me Geoff....

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It doesn't mean I know what I'm doing :mrgreen:
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Great capture, Greg. Nicely done.
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Now that's impressive!
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Wonderful!
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Lowjiber wrote: Sun Jun 14, 2020 12:38 pm Great capture, Greg. Nicely done.
Thanks for your help!!!
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A great capture.
Thank you for sharing it with us.
Clear Skies.
Regards,

Peter
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