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Manual: Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism Mark II

Technical data and most important optional adapters

Telescope side connection options (included as standard)

•  2" (50.8 mm) nose piece with safety kerfs and M48 filter thread
•  Ring dove tail S58 x 3.7 mm, for connection e.g. to Zeiss M8 and other Baader 

connection standards with optional adapters

Additional filters (included as standard)

•  2" neutral density filter density 3.0 (1:1000, transmission 0.1%) 

# 2458332

•  Baader 7.5 nm Solar Continuum Filter (SCT) 2" (540 nm) 

# 2961581

Both filters are pre-mounted in the rotatable filter mount of the Herschel prism.
The photographic version of the Herschel prism additionally contains the three filters
•  Neutral density filter (grey filter) 2", ND 0.6 (T=25%) 

# 2458321

•  Neutral density filter (grey filter) 2", ND 0.9 (T=12,5%) 

# 2458322

•  Neutral density filter (grey filter) 2", ND 1.8 (T=1,5%) 

# 2458331

These filters are also available separately.

Connection options on the eyepiece side (included as standard)

•  2" (50.8 mm) ClickLock

®

 clamp with brass clamping ring, optical length 30 mm

•  S58 ring dovetail, exactly the same as on the Diamond Steeltrack

®

 focusers

Technical data

Optical length:   As supplied with ClickLock

®

 eyepiece clamp: 

 

115 mm without filter 

 

With two filters of 2 mm glass thickness (ND 3, SCT): 112.4 mm 

 

With optional SteelTrack M48/M68/T-2 adapter  

 

instead of ClickLock

®

 eyepiece clamp: 85-86 mm without filter

Weight:  

650g single unit, ~1,6 kg total weight incl. case

Housing:  

cast metall, milled  

 

matt black anodised and pearl white textured finish 

 

Three-point adjustment system

Recommended accessories

•  2" polarising filter, single 

# 2408342

, for stepless brightness control

•  S58 Steeltrack adapters allow the 2" ClickLock

®

 eyepiece clamp to be replaced 

with one of the following short length adapters:
•  Diamond Steeltrack® T-2 Adapter 

# 2957202

, optical length 2 mm. 

•  Diamond Steeltrack® M48 adapter 

# 2957204

, optical length 1 mm

•  Diamond Steeltrack® M68i adapter 

# 2957207

, optical length 2 mm

•  Reducer to 1¼", e.g. Baader 2" to 1¼" ClickLock

®

 reducer 

# 2956214

Содержание Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel prism Mark II

Страница 1: ...BAADER MARK HERSCHEL PRISM Cool Ceramic Safety Instruction Manual and Application Examples Congratulations on your purchase of the Cool Ceramic Safety CCS Herschel Prism Mark II It can give you a lif...

Страница 2: ...sories on the Herschel prism 11 Eyepieces 2 and 1 11 Bino viewers on the Safety Cool Ceramic Herschel prism 12 Attaching a camera 14 The FFC Fluorite Projection Lens System on the CCS Herschel Prism M...

Страница 3: ...e pointing the telescopes at the Sun Always mount the Herschel prism on the focuser before pointing the telescope at the Sun Never leave the telescope unattended especially when observing the sun with...

Страница 4: ...d that the sunlight is sufficiently attenuated for visual observation by another fil ter solar continuum ND or polarising filter Use the article number on the filter cell ND 3 0 2458332 to check that...

Страница 5: ...pose but these have largely been replaced by the inexpensive BAADER AstroSolar film You can find more information on this on our website at https www baader planetarium com en solar observation html o...

Страница 6: ...arately Connection options on the eyepiece side included as standard 2 50 8 mm ClickLock clamp with brass clamping ring optical length 30 mm S58 ring dovetail exactly the same as on the Diamond Steelt...

Страница 7: ...he centre of the telescope s field of view is thus child s play The 2 ClickLock eyepiece clamp is used to hold eyepieces or other accessories With a 15 turn you clamp any eyepiece bombproof even in wi...

Страница 8: ...ach can be inserted into the filter mount on the telescope side Further filters must be inserted in the eyepiece the nose piece of the camera or a 1 reducer a 2 filter can also be installed upside dow...

Страница 9: ...at it covers the brightness levels from dim to bright For visual observation you can simply use the position that provides a comfortable image brightness Always place the filter on the eyepiece side b...

Страница 10: ...Solar Continuum Filter in a 150 2250 Zeiss AS refractor In the upper image an additional ND 0 9 filter was used to achieve comparable exposure times and to compensate for the influence of air turbulen...

Страница 11: ...mes from professional mechanical engineering This is also how the tool holder on modern CNC milling centres works By clever use of the lever forces the tightening torque is increased many times over T...

Страница 12: ...pend on the dioptric cor rection setting You can easily determine the available backfocus of your refractor as follows Point your refractor without eyepiece at the moon and hold a white sheet of paper...

Страница 13: ...there is suffici ent backfocus you can also fix the black centering ring with a T 2 intermediate ring 7 5mm 1508155 and leave it installed For bino viewers with T 2 thread proceed as follows The optic...

Страница 14: ...nd loss of warranty Probably the world s best projection lens for planetary projection photography is our Fluorite Flatfield Corrector FFC which allows a focal length extension of 3x to 8x Together wi...

Страница 15: ...filter drawers You can insert a UFC filter drawer between the eyepiece clamp and the rotating filter holder for example to quickly switch between solar continuum filters for white light and the calciu...

Страница 16: ...e designed so that a DSLR can only come into focus without additional accessories In this case the S58 adapters to T 2 M48 or M68 described on page 6 are the solu tion to shorten the mechanical length...

Страница 17: ...ircumstances the camera s flash shoe may bump against the Herschel prism In rare cases another short T 2 exten sion or a quick release is necessary 5 With a T 2 quick change system 2456322 or 2456321...

Страница 18: ...every tanning salon is legally obliged to warn against looking directly into UV A radiati on Nothing else happens when one visually observes the calcium line below 400 nm To take advantage of the high...

Страница 19: ...he Schmidt corrector plate Originally designed for high resolution H alpha observation with So larSpectrum or Baader SunDancer filters the special coating also allows deep sky narrowband photography a...

Страница 20: ...evenly vegetated area park meadow water surface the seeing conditions will be better than if you observe over chaotically built up areas houses etc As mentioned above for regular solar observations it...

Страница 21: ...as brightening of the solar surface and are usually located around sunspot groups These flare regions are hotter than the normal photosphere In white light observations with the Safety Herschel prism...

Страница 22: ...w ISO values of around 125 This ensures that the seeing air turbulence is really frozen If 1 1000 sec is not feasible depending on the focal ratio of the taking lens change the ND 3 0 for the ND 1 8 f...

Страница 23: ...h is achieved either by eyepiece projection with OPFA System 2458142 or preferably by barlow lenses or even the FFC see page 14 Today s cameras with their small pixels do not need the very high magnif...

Страница 24: ...at is filming the sun and then stacking the best shots The pixel size of the camera which must match the resolution of the telescope and the image scale For this purpose the focal length is adapted to...

Страница 25: ...alpha line on the other hand even very narrow band deep sky H alpha filters with 3 5 nm are much wider band than the special H alpha filters with around 0 06 nm passband At www baader planetarium com...

Страница 26: ...um de www celestron de G M B H Baader Planetarium GmbH All Rights reserved Products or instructions may change without notice or obligation Images and illustrations may differ from the original produc...

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