A New Toy

Yesterday I picked up a new toy, a Coronado PST (personal solar telescope). It is a small telescope designed specifically to view the solar flares.

So, today I got it out, set it up in my backyard, and started viewing. The sun looked awsome. So, cool that I wanted to try and take a few pictures of it with my digital camera. The picture you see is the best one I got today. All I did was hold the camera up to the eyepiece and push the button. This is a first trial, and I am going to try and take more pictures. As I get better pictures I will post them. As you can see there are some flares coming off the bottom, and there are some at about 4 o'clock.

If you go to my webpage I listed yesterday, and then click on the other link that goes to my personal school wepage you can see other pictures I have taken through my regular telescope.

Let me know what you think.