Solar preliminaries began with the new Acuter Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope on Thursday May 12th 2022 when the daytime sky momentarily cleared forming cloud opening sucker holes for astro imaging and study. The Acuter telescope has already received the solar filter and sun finderscope.
Experiments began with image scale, formatting and processing. The first setup is from the indoor observatory viewing through window glass and imaging with processing to remove window glass. The stock 20mm shows the entire solar disk, albeit on the small side at 37.5x while other oculars and a barlow zoom in on the edge for prominences and solar flares. The Acuter 60mm Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope is very high resolution and a perfect candidate for serving as one of the primary solar telescopes at the solar observatory.
