Scudding clouds this morning, cleared up around midday, a beautiful afternoon for solar observing.
PST working well today, it revealed several good prominences and two big sunspot groups, and a few filaments.
Still processing the filament pictures, will post them and a white light image tomorrow.
Here's a Sol white image from today's observing session.
The afocal method seems fine for quick solar shots.
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff.
We are a way for the universe to know itself."
Carl Sagan.
Blue sky, scudding clouds and COLD outside.
A quick morning image of Sol.
Considering the photo was taken through the closed kitchen window I'm happy with the results.
With a quick break in the clouds this morning, I managed to capture a few prominence shots.
I placed a black cloth over the telescope and my head. There was a marked improvement in prominence contrast.
Sat in the garden with a black sheet over my head, on a windy dull day...
I wonder what the neighbours thought!
Rained heavily this morning, but around 2.30pm the clouds parted, and out came the Sun.
Old Sol wasn't the only object to be seen.. Helen noticed that the large prominence on view looked like the Eiffel Tower!
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| Eiffel Tower Prominence |
Clouded out for most of the day, though did manage to capture a quick image.
Orion 90mm Maksutov - White light filter - Afocal Samsung S6.
Tried a bit of copy and paste with the supplied Android app. Here is the rough result.
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| Active Region 2936 |
Still cold out there today, but really glad to see the days are now noticeably longer.
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I've just had a go at cleaning up the above picture with IrfanView software.
I'll let you decide which is better.
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| Irfan View software |
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| Android phone App |
Not a very strong diplay this afternoon, the sky was blue from around 1.00 p.m.
At least I was able to capture this image.
My "Coronograph filter" enabled a bit more contrast to be seen on the final picture.
Coronado PST 40mm/ f10 afocal 12.5mm Kellner and S6 camera phone.
Just a quick post of today's hydrogen alpha image, my first solar image of the year.
Not much white light activity today, very little in the way of visual sun spots.
Though there was one interesting grouping, but with little detail, as seen through the Ha 40mm PST.
Pretty quiet as regards prominence activity, but I did manage this image, taken through our bedroom (closed) window.
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| January 6th 2022 - 15h15m UT : SFI 84 - SN 24 |
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda - Happy New Year
Clear Skies
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| Anyone remember this catalogue? Fullerscope reflectors from the 1980's ...proper Old School. |
N.B I must get those bedroom windows cleaned!
Finally after nearly two months of cloud, rain, and winter gales... the blue sky reappears.
Been going slightly mad waiting for the blue sky return.
Thankfully this morning the clouds evaporated, the Sun shone with Winter bright, and the sky was washed once again with heart warming blue.
Managed to see a couple of prominences and filaments on old Sol, plus a train of several sunspot groups.
To really round off this bluest of days, I managed to photograph the Moon as it was rising over the trig point of our nearest mountain, the Frenni Fawr.
A good day for Sol and Selene, and as I write this, it isn't even dark yet.
Hopefully clear skies tonight.
Thank you blue sky Pembrokeshire weather... clouds gone... all recent bad weather is forgiven.
The cloud free sky lightened by a gibbous Moon. All is quiet, hushed and still. In the distance a rally car is negotiating the next bend, ch...
