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 |
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