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Thermal or Infrared Imaging
I haven't done any
Telescope: Celestron Evolution 9.25 with Celestron Motor Focus
Evolution WiFi Mount Head/ built in 10 Hr Battery and CPC Tripod
Binoculars: Celestron SkyMaster Giant 15x70 / Heavy Duty Tripod
Orion 2x54 Ultra Wide Field
Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT EOS 350D
Diagonal: Baader 2" BBHS Sitall Mirror
EPs: Baader Hyperion Aspheric 36mm 1.25"/2", Pentax XW 20mm, Pentax XW 7mm,
Tele Vue Delite 11mm, Plossl 40mm & 13mm
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Re: Thermal or Infrared Imaging
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Mounts: SW: SkyTee2, AzGTi; iOptron: AZMP; ES: Twilight I; Bresser: EXOS2; UA: MicroStar.
Binos: APM: 100-90 APO; Canon: IS 15x50; Orion: Binoviewer, LG II 15x70, WV 10x50, Nikon: AE 16x50, 10x50, 8x40.
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Diagonals: Baader: BBHS mirror, Zeiss Spec T2 prism, Clicklock dielectric; TeleVue: Evebrite dielectric; AltairAstro: 2" prism.
Filters: Lumicon: DeepSky, UHC, OIII, H-beta; Baader: Moon & SkyGlow, Contrast Booster, UHC-S, 6-color set; Astronomik: UHC.
Solar: HA: Lunt 50mm single stack, W/L: Meade Herschel wedge.
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Re: Thermal or Infrared Imaging
Telescope: Celestron Evolution 9.25 with Celestron Motor Focus
Evolution WiFi Mount Head/ built in 10 Hr Battery and CPC Tripod
Binoculars: Celestron SkyMaster Giant 15x70 / Heavy Duty Tripod
Orion 2x54 Ultra Wide Field
Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT EOS 350D
Diagonal: Baader 2" BBHS Sitall Mirror
EPs: Baader Hyperion Aspheric 36mm 1.25"/2", Pentax XW 20mm, Pentax XW 7mm,
Tele Vue Delite 11mm, Plossl 40mm & 13mm
Barlow Lens: Tele Vue 2.5x - 1.25" Powermate
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I know right!? I hope the price will go down a bit with time.
Mounts: SW: SkyTee2, AzGTi; iOptron: AZMP; ES: Twilight I; Bresser: EXOS2; UA: MicroStar.
Binos: APM: 100-90 APO; Canon: IS 15x50; Orion: Binoviewer, LG II 15x70, WV 10x50, Nikon: AE 16x50, 10x50, 8x40.
EPs: Pentax: XWs & XFs; TeleVue: Delites, Delos, Panoptic & Plossls; ES: 68, 62; Vixen: SLVs; Baader: BCOs, Aspherics, Mark IV.
Diagonals: Baader: BBHS mirror, Zeiss Spec T2 prism, Clicklock dielectric; TeleVue: Evebrite dielectric; AltairAstro: 2" prism.
Filters: Lumicon: DeepSky, UHC, OIII, H-beta; Baader: Moon & SkyGlow, Contrast Booster, UHC-S, 6-color set; Astronomik: UHC.
Solar: HA: Lunt 50mm single stack, W/L: Meade Herschel wedge.
Observing: DSOs: 3122 (Completed: Messier, Herschel 1, 2, 3. In progress: H2,500: 2196, S110: 77). Doubles: 2461, Comets: 34, Asteroids: 261
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Re: Thermal or Infrared Imaging
Telescope: Celestron Evolution 9.25 with Celestron Motor Focus
Evolution WiFi Mount Head/ built in 10 Hr Battery and CPC Tripod
Binoculars: Celestron SkyMaster Giant 15x70 / Heavy Duty Tripod
Orion 2x54 Ultra Wide Field
Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT EOS 350D
Diagonal: Baader 2" BBHS Sitall Mirror
EPs: Baader Hyperion Aspheric 36mm 1.25"/2", Pentax XW 20mm, Pentax XW 7mm,
Tele Vue Delite 11mm, Plossl 40mm & 13mm
Barlow Lens: Tele Vue 2.5x - 1.25" Powermate
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Re: Thermal or Infrared Imaging
Never done Thermal.
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Agena SWA 38mm 70 FOV 2" EP, Orion 25+10mm Sirius Plossl 52 FOV EP
ES 82* 11mm, 18mm 2", ES 68* 24mm, 6mm, 25mm Ortho. EP, Televue 3X Barlow,CS lens 2.8mm-12mm F1.4
Filters Baader Continuum, UV/IF cut, Lumicon UHC, DGM OIII. ND5/3.8 Kendrick
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Re: Thermal or Infrared Imaging
You can see the Sun shine right through the blackest of blackout curtains and the view makes them look thin as a wedding veil with the fabrics complex interweavings and stitchings even becoming viewable.
If a person walks close by the window outside on a sunny day, you can see thier shadow easily. Black out curtains are almost see through beyond the visible spectrum I found out.
At night it works ok and for extended views an IR iluminator or Ir flashlight can extend the range of what becomes visible but its way more fun with strong Ir sources and or in daylight.
I have often imaged the Sun through my solar wedge using the 850 or 685nm Ir pass filters and the Ir pass filters do an excellent job there too...
Small Bore Multiple Wavelength Experimental Solar Imaging, Filtering, SEAA & Visual Observation
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Re: Thermal or Infrared Imaging
So a traditional telescope is not well suited at all for thermal imaging!
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Re: Thermal or Infrared Imaging
High altitude observatories eg Mauna Kea (4000m) Atacama (6000m) can do some IR but at normal altitudes you won't get much, except perhaps the sun.
In the 1970's, my astronomy mentor used to use his 12" cassegrain to measure visual wavelengths of B[e] type flare stars. He collaborated and simultaneously coordinated the observing runs with the Parkes 64m radio telescope and the Mt Stromlo 74in reflector doing IR. Mt Stromlo is about 900m altitude and a 74 in telescope doing IR from that altitude only had sensitivity to IR comparable to a 12" optical wavelength telescope.
Scaled down, a 12" scope doing IR might only have IR sensitivity comparable to a 2" scope. Maybe go to Pike's Peak and observe from there?
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