For traveling by airplane a light equipment is needed. An inspiration was the speach of Eberhard Bredner in Guildford 2016. He presented his small equipment for the solar eclipse last year and I tryed to develop a compareable solution.
ESOP 2018
For traveling by airplane
a light equipment is needed. An inspiration was the speach of
Eberhard Bredner in Guildford 2016. He presented his small equipment
for the solar eclipse last year and I tryed to develop a compareable
solution.
The optic is an small 80mm f/5 Fraunhofer made in China . The weight is much smaler as the weight of my 72mm Apochromat and for occultations no high magnification is needed.
An advantage is the finder-shoe.
The counterweight is an water-bottle.
For recording a little hand-held recorder could be used....but the display is very small.
For the First Light a suitable Double was found in Steve-Prestons ´Best-Off´-Liste for 16.5.2017
The time difference is 18 hours. The crosspoint was near Pompeji. An interesting target for a small holliday.
The wether prediction was positive:
The equipment take place in a simple sport-bag.
