New planet-hunting tool chases after star system's little brown dwarf

[longship]

7. Well, if I wanted to view the sun, I would get a dedicated solar refractor.

With an appropriate active filter. Small, but high tech. A 90mm would be great, 70mm still fine. Why waste a large aperture reflector on something so bright?

You want to do solar research? There are dedicated solar scopes already in existence.

You want to take awesome pictures? Yup! A small personal solar scope will do just fine.

The astronomy magazines are full of such pictures. And yup! The effort and expense is worth it.

I used to have a Williams Optics/TEC 115mm triplet refractor mounted on a Losmandy G11. I never got the camera equipment together to do what I wanted. I had to sell it to heat my house when unemployment became a semi-permanent affair here in rural Michigan. I still have a very nice 254mm Dobsonian reflector with digital setting circles and a custom mirror and ash base and a ton of great eyepieces. I do not get out with it very often, but when I do, it is fucking awesome.