Saturday, February 22, 2025

SOLAP Report 2024 - Sol'Ex Pro-AM

Florence Cornu from observatoire de Meudon (Paris) send us the SOLAP annual report 2024. This report provides information about the cooperation between amateurs ujsing Sol'Ex (Solar Explorer) and the professional Meudon Observatory, so called Pro-Am, cooperation SOLAP Project.

Currently 37 amateurs are part of the SOLAP of which 30 French and 7 non French. So far, I'm the only Belgian. My contribution is limited as I only started in september of 2024. 

Contribution per person with Ha and Ha2cb images


Some interesting facts from the report :

- EQ6 and AZEQ6 is most used mount
- IMX178 is most used camera; I'm the only one using the IMX290; 
- 72mm telescopes are most used
- Sunscan can not be used due to quality of the images
- Sunchine hours over the last 3 years



Naming of the files changed last year