The society was to bring three solar observing telescopes, a White light filtered telescope to concentrate observations on Sunspots and two Hydrogen Alpha telescope to work on the face granulations, Prominences, Flares, Filaments and any other phenomena seen.
The day was forecast to be cloudy, but turned out to be clear with occasional summer clouds. The plan was to set up the equipment behind the physics lab. powered by a mains connection to the lab.
The white light telescope was the personal Skywatcher 4" reflector of Mark Sabir, and the Ha instruments were a Coronado PST refractor and a Skywatcher 80ED fitted with a Solar Systems 0.3A/32mm Ha filter, owned by DAS.
The students were put into groups and passed from instrument to instrument so all were able to use all instruments. Many used their cameras ('phone cameras) to take photographs of what they saw, some more successfully than others.
Finally when all the students had seen all and had left, a DSLR camera was used to photograph the Sun in Ha through the SS filter. This wasn't as successful as hoped, so will be repeated next time the Sun can be seen, from the observatory at Austerfield.
During the time the telescopes were set up, several other teachers came out to look at the Sun, many seeing it through telescopes for the first time.
