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The society has purchased a Coronado PST (personal solar telescope) which is available for members to use at solar viewing sessions and any other events of interest.

Members also interested in astrophotography will hopefully be able to take some solar images through this telescope, and Andy Hatfield and Tony West have already tried out the telescope for this purpose - see the members areas for pictures.
Andy's pictures were taken with a canon 30D but it was impossible to achieve prime focus and so he had to resort to eyepiece projection which was still difficult and requires further practice.

Tony West did very well using just his Nikon compact digital camera held to the eyepiece and got some good shots of the solar prominences which were easily visible in the telescope - there were only a couple of fading sunspots visible on Monday 11th June when the pictures were taken.

Andy Hatfield has added a webcam to the site which shows the current sky conditions over Bradford - the webcam is a standard 1.3 megapixel camera and does not have exceptional low light capability so we won't be able to show much of the night sky just yet, although the camera seems to be working quite well even in late twilight - Andy hopes to add a more sensitive camera at a later date which will allow us to see better as the light fades.