Skywatch ITT Emberger Alm Carinthia
October-5th-2002

On the 5th of October we drove to the South of Austria to have a look at the International Telescope Meeting on the Emberger Alm at 1800m Sealevel. We arrived in the afternoon and by luck this was one of the few moments where the sky opened a little and we could have some looks to the Sun through the different telescopes. The biggest impression i got from some views to the Sun through a Lichtenknecker 6 inch refraktor with a 6 inch Coronado solar filter. The filter was for sale for only 35000 Euros/$. As i did not have so small money with me i tried to capture some images through it. I held my Canon G1 Digitalcamera to the Eyepiece and tried to get some images. See below the total Sun image.The partial sun image was made by the owner of the filter with his Nikkon D1 Digitalcamera using my compact flash card. As i am very much interested to buy a new stable mount i walked around to image some beautiful commercial and homemade mounts. Find also attached a few pictures as examples. We stayed until Monday the 7th of October on this place but there was no skywatch possible during night.(Rain, fog, ...)

So, from skywatching point of view it was a desaster, but to see what is available and what is used was very interesting. Especially the Coronado filter for live view of Protuberances is a piece of hardware which makes really fun.