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Shawn. Does he want it for personal use or public use? There is no reason (unless you really want one) to have a tracking mount on a solar scope as I personally would not leave it exposed on the sun for extended periods no matter who makes it. If for personal use, he can get by with an alt az just fine (the sun is a bit easy to locate :) ). Saves some money. PSTs are a thing of the past, somewhat, as I have no idea who sells or services then now, if anyone. I would be very wary of a used PST purchase as they all deteriorated to the point of not working after a few years. You certainly don't need aperture for a solar scope. For an Ha scope the narrowness of the band pass is the critical function. Do you want to see proms or surface details? Surface requires tighter band passes (more money). Daystar is a well established company as is Lunt (His father was the founder of Coronado). The Daystar uses a slightly different system or at least used to. One thing they all have in common is that they all are persnickety and can be difficult to share the view with the public under some circumstance. If just for general public viewing, white light is much easier to deal with.
On Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 01:45:29 PM EDT, Will Kiff via groups.io <modok4@...> wrote:
I saw a 50mm Lunt on cloudynights foor $650 I use a Skywatcher AZGTI?with mine and it does decent.? I know they have a version that is only for solar tracking, It's called the SolarQuest.? Supposedly?you just plop it down, level it and it uses GPS to know where it's at and it uses a solar sensor to track. On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 12:32?PM Shawn Loescher via <shawn.loescher=[email protected]> wrote:
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