Meade Personal Solar Telescope with Case Package

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Price: $716.27    

Product Feature

• Internal optical re-focusing mechanism provides compatibility with most conventional eyepiece lenses
• Built in Sun finder
• Fully multi-coated doublet
• Telescope body does not have moving or extending parts
• Objective threaded to take SolarMax40 and create <0.6A telescope

Product Description

40mm aperture, dedicated Ha telescope with 30mm internal etalon. 20mm Kellner eyepiece. 400mm FL. <1A bandwidth. Carrying case included.

Meade Personal Solar Telescope with Case Package Review

home for the last year, and have brought it out on every sunny day. On January 27, 2012 I happened to drag it out an hour after an X1.6 solar flare had occurred, and for an amateur astronomer the view was like winning the lottery. Will never forget the beautiful fountain of plasma, a fountain that I spent several hours just staring at. Unfortunately The school will eventually want theirs back so bought my own today.

I have used a lot of the models and can save you some trouble if you are on the fence.
There is nothing like the PST in it's price range... nothing even close!
Don't waste your money on a filter to fit over a normal scope. The difference between a solar filter and the PST is the difference between a black and white TV and a high definition plasma TV.
A bigger aperture isn't really better if you are just viewing, since the filter stops most of the light anyways.
IMHO The double stack isn't worth the extra cost. If you are on a budget just get the bare bones PST (consider getting the case!) and a sturdy camera tripod.
If you decide to spend $300+ for a high quality adjustable zoom lens you won't be disappointed. A high quality adjustable zoom is a joy to work with.
It takes time for your eye to become good at picking out detail. The first few times you may just see an orange ball, but after many hours of viewing your eye will become very adept at picking out details as soon as you look in the eyepiece. Be patient.
There is a "sweet spot", usually in the center of the field of view, where additional details can be discerned. Move the area you want to look at into the center of the field.
There is an easy way to align the scope. Put your hands around the barrel near the filter adjustment. Make the shadow of the barrel fall evenly around where your hands are. When you remove your hands the sun will usually already be in the focuser!
The unit is trivial to set up. I am usually looking at the Sun within one minute of opening the box.
Score easy brownie points. Show the Sun to family and friends. Most will really appreciate it, because most people have no idea what it really looks like. You will get people with no interest in learning anything but fortunately they are a small minority (at least in Michigan).

It's true that this telescope is only good for looking at the sun, and serves no other purpose. There is another way of looking at this situation. There are 200+ billion stars in the galaxy but you only get the opportunity to see ONE up close. You also can't use just a normal telescope to view it. Anyone who really understands that the Sun is one of those many points of light in the night sky...a unimaginably powerful nuclear furnace... a STAR!) cannot help but be amazed by what they are seeing through the eyepiece of a PST. You can actually see the prominences, filaments, and active regions changing over the course of a day, sometimes over the course of minutes, and the mathematical mind will eventually realize that those ionized gases are following magnetic field lines at relativistic speeds. It is truly wondrous.

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