I was thinking of buying that Howie Glatter platform that joins two PSTs to form a true binocular. Might still do it one of these days. The only problem with solar binos is that they are best suited to alt-az mounts, too avoid having to tip one's head over sideways as you would if they were mounted to an EQ mount that tracks the sun. A workaround would be a GoTo alt-az mount, which a lot of people use anyway, or tube rotation rings such as some old Newtonians use. I used to use my solar scopes on a TeleTrack GoTo alt-az mount, but got weary of the setup procedure. I now use a regular old-school GEM with electric RA drive. I can get it polar aligned by dead-reckoning in daylight close enough that the sun stays in the FOV for over an hour. On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Siegfried Jachmann <siegfried@jachmann.org> wrote:
Been done. He's too late.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:32 PM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@getbeehive.net> wrote:
Nice work Chuck.
So when are you going to invent Halpha binoculars?
patrick