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WCC's solar telescope (heliostat), which was custom made and installed by Michael Marcus of Observatory Scope, consists of a roof-mounted Meade 8-inch LX200 mount that tracks the sun with an 8-inch optical flat mirror. The solar rays are then re-directed down into the control room by a second permanenly mounted 8-inxh optically flat mirror.

The sun's image is then projected onto a screen by a vertically mounted Meade 5-inch achromat refractor. Observers can also view the sun's image directly through the eyepiece when a Coronado SolarMax 90 alpha-filter system is attached.

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Heliostat

 

Heliostat

Heliostat

Heliostat

 

Heliostat

Sample photographs

sunspots
Sunspots 5-18-2012
(Joseph Ciotti)
transit of Mercury
Transit of Mercury 11-8-2006 (Joshua Langley)
transit of Venus
Transit of Venus 6-8-2004
(Joseph Ciotti)