Question by : Is it possible for an AMATEUR to create an artificial solar eclipse?
I really want to view the suns corona, and I read that NASA has instrumentation to create artificial solar eclipses for this purpose. However, is there anything an amateur astronomer can build or purchase to achieve essentially the same thing?
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Answer by GeoffGFilters and telescopes to isolate hydrogen alpha are widely available and quite inexpensive. These allow you to view solar prominences at any time. Seeing the corona requires blocking the disk of the Sun with an occulting disk, which must match the Sun's disk exactly. There is still the problem of scattered light in the Earth's atmosphere, which NASA deals with by putting the solar telescope in a Lagrange orbit, something beyond the amateur.
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A "ring of fire" solar eclipse is coming to the USA this spring. It's the first annular eclipse visible from the contiguous United States in almost 18 years. Timetables and maps at eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov Credit: NASA Science
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Is it possible for an AMATEUR to create an artificial solar eclipse?
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