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Extreme Junky
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Location: Wisconsin | Hey, I got my solar film yesterday in the mail, ultra fast shipping from USPS! Ordered Monday afternoon, here Thursday morning! The guys at Agena are pretty fast, and gave me an extra 5/8" of material, hehe. Ordered the 10" square, and got 10 5/8" when I put the ruler up to it. I'm helping my buddy put a roof on a house. Man I hate shingling... I'm more of a flat-roofer, but gave that up late last year. We were crawling around up on a two story home for 12 hours yesterday, had to tear off 2 layers of shingles, and a layer of cedar shakes.... Then throw new decking down. Ugh. But when I got home I had some solar film waiting for me!!! Man that stuff is thin. Haven't constructed any filters yet, I'll probably be doing that this weekend or something. I held the sheet up to the sun, that was kinda cool.
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Location: Wyoming Sagebrush | So, which material was it that you finally ended up getting Bill? |
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Regular Junky
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Location: Greenfield Indiana USA | I constructed a solar filter cell by sandwiching the film between two rings of black picture matting. I used carpet tape to mount the film and hold the two rings together. I then constructed a collar that fits over my scope and also holds the cell. If you want I'll be glad to post pictures when I get home. |
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Extreme Junky
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Location: Wisconsin | I was going to use a similar method, it would be cool if you could post some pictures. That way I'll have a collar that I can attach all of my future doo-dads too.
As for the film, I got the ND5 Baader stuff. |
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Regular Junky
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Location: Greenfield Indiana USA | Here are the pictures. I made a new thread....
http://www.telescopejunkies.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=4950&pos...
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Extreme Junky
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Location: Wisconsin | That's perfect man. Thanks for posting it. The one I had in my mind was sort of backwards compared to yours. |
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Regular Junky
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Location: Greenfield Indiana USA | I also had the idea that I could place a mask on the top along with the sun filter. I also used a Hartzman mask. |
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Extreme Junky
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Location: Wisconsin | Ah, I came over to Mom's today, to build this thing for the film, It's kind of a work-in-progress. But it's on the scope right now and I'm eyeballing a sunspot right now!!! I figured I wouldn't get it all together, and have the luck to get a clear sky. It's cloudy, but turning clear, so cool. Too bad I didn't bring the camera and laptop. |
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New solar film!!
