Marv Heilig and Larry Steimle at Costa Mesa testing the Vacuum Solar Telescope
8 inch vacuum solar telescope mounted on main telescope tube. It had a special Hydrogen Alpha filter and an automatic 35mm film camera for taking Sun photos to use in a space simulator for astronauts.
Haley Mogey made the 8 inch single element lens. It was a Hydrogen Alpha line telescope (one wavelength), so it didn’t need more than one element.
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