WCC 's solar telerscope (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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