A Celestron 5" telescope with projection screen. In the background Agustin
Chicarro, Mars Express Project Scientist.
A 102 mm Vixen refractor with projection screen. This telescope actually gave the most impressive views of the sun in white light (high res - 1.8 MB)
A 6" f/9 Meade refractor with an Astrovid 2000 video camera, Thousand Oaks glass filter (high res - 1.5 MB).
In the grey box there is a video recorder and a monitor. Note the umbrella - important to increase the visibility of the image on the monitor! The box is the same used in ESA's meteor campaigns (high res - 834 kB). I am explaining what's visible to Johannes Riedinger.
A 10" Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain with a H-alpha filter (high
res - 15 MB). The lady under the black cloth is Monica Talevi.
Here you can see the H-alpha filter - the silver round item close to the eyepiece. It filters out the red light of the H-alpha line, which let's us see prominences.