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Astrophil

Hi All, Here are the full disk images from Sept. 6th. I'm a little slow on the processing but since they turned out pretty well I decided to post. Don't you just love the recent solar activity and despise all the rain and clouds? Phil 20210906_100904_FD.jpg 20210906_100657_FDinv.jpg 20210906_100657_...

Astrophil

Very fine set of images, Stu. I like them all. Great color, detail, uniformity, you name it, those are exceptional shots. Interesting shaped proms too.

Phil

Astrophil

Lou, The Delta DTB 4824 appears to be a standard industrial temperature controller. From the looks of the display, the B-1 SR has the same controller. Operating manuals can be found by searching for the model number. You will find that there are a huge number of parameters that can be set for differ...

Astrophil

Lou, this might help.

Phil

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Astrophil

Very good images, Lou.

Mine states 55ºC on the label, I set it to 59º usually. At that temp. it produces a more uniform field and seems to be on band.

Phil

Astrophil

Thanks for the comments and the encouragement they bring. When imaging isn’t plausible, it’s nice to fall back on the images here, and there have been some spectacular ones recently. Let’s hope the sun comes out tomorrow. Valery, SS 0.3A. Phil I only caught some proms today (20th) so I’ll sneak it i...

Astrophil

Incredible images Alex. Thank you.

Phil

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Really good, Brian. That was one heck of a prom, nicely done!

Phil

Astrophil

Hi All, It was a nice clear morning to reacquaint myself with some solar imaging. Happily imaging away until the clouds rolled in. Then I realized that the camera I used had previously been set for a small ROI and only about one quarter of the chip was recording. The images were good enough to post ...

Astrophil

Hi All, It was a nice clear morning to reacquaint myself with some solar imaging. Happily imaging away until the clouds rolled in. Then I realized that the camera I used had previously been set for a small ROI and only about one quarter of the chip was recording. The images were good enough to post ...

Astrophil

Thank you all for the kind comments. They're much appreciated.

Phil

Astrophil

The Sun was active, the sky was calm, for almost 15 minutes this morning. I shot a few full disks then in came the clouds.
Here's what I got with the Lunt 80 DSII and the Grasshopper GX camera.

Phil

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Astrophil

Truly an excellent publication for any sun lover. Many thanks to everyone involved.

Stu, so close, yet so far.

Phil

Astrophil

Super impressive animation with such fine details. Would you mind making the next one much longer?
I really enjoyed that one, Stu. Thanks.

Phil

Astrophil

Excellent details! It sure makes it easy on these old eyes.

Phil

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Rainer, I’ve really missed those full disk images. Glad the weather is cooperating again.

Phil

Astrophil

Very nice, Mark. Always a quality presentation.
Thanks,
Phil

Astrophil

A pleasure to view, Franco. I do like the prom presentation. Reminiscent of a snowy winter scene.

Phil

Astrophil

Hi All, Today was a nice day for some Ha so the LS80 went out again. First off in a single stack configuration and later double stacked. I thought the result were pleasing enough to post. Using a 2.5x Powermate, a full disk mosaic was attempted but conditions did not allow for completion. I got the ...

Astrophil

Thank you, friends. It’s always a pleasure to participate here.

Phil

Astrophil

That's what I like to see. Truly gorgeous images but I suspect the best is yet to come.

Phil

Astrophil

Hi All, Today the LS80 took its turn in the sunshine after a 2 month break and captured something interesting. While processing some data I noticed an eruption of some sort near the NW limb. Image quality and tuning aside, I thought you might like to see the short lived event. 13:30 UT Phil 20210723...

Astrophil

Triple stack! Hmmm.....I think you’re just showing off, another great image Stu. Nicely done.
Amazing how uniform the disk is.

Phil

Astrophil

Excellent images, Brian. I do like the performance of the new scope.

Phil

Astrophil

Perfect, Christian.

Phil

Astrophil

Wow! I bet your happy with those shots, I sure am.

Phil

Astrophil

Ahhhh, very nice Stu. Exactly what my eyes have been longing to see. Only clouds here. I’ll probably miss this AR completely.

Thanks,

Phil

Astrophil

Excellent use of ten seconds, Rod. Excellent image as well.

Phil

Astrophil

Great looking images, Marty. Glad we got a little sun in the sunshine state.

Phil

Astrophil

Beautiful set of images, Stu. All good!

Phil

Astrophil

Thank you all so much for the kind comments. I’m glad you liked them.

Phil

Astrophil

Hi All, Yesterday I received some Baader solar film and green filter. Today I gave them a try even though there wasn't much in the way of spots. H alpha was a different story with three nice regions to capture and a nice prom. All shot with the 6" Mac, 2x telecentric, and Grasshopper camera. Ph...

Astrophil

Very nice images, Franco.
Frogs can sense a party.

Phil

Astrophil

Great CaK, Mark. I like it.

Phil

Astrophil

Nice shots, David. They show the AR very well. The 1.6x Barlow looks good to me.

Phil

Astrophil

Stu, you’ve been producing so many exceptional images recently I just want to say thank you. The closeup Ha shots are my favorites and when the big scope performs like it did today, all I can say is Wow!
Nicely done.

Phil

Astrophil

Thanks, Valery, Peter, and Arne. That location is my favorite and works for about three months of the year, the rest of the time trees block the view. I often contemplate getting a larger scope, maybe someday I will. Thanks again for the encouragement.

Phil

Astrophil

Thank you so much for the kind comments. Mark, the post processing is nothing special. I capture with an old program called Astro IIDC with the gamma set to boost the contrast, the resulting .mov files are converted into .avi and stacked in AutoStakkert, imppg, then PhotoLine for a descreening, curv...

Astrophil

Great images, Raf. I imaged the ARs at the same time you did.

Phil

Astrophil

Fabulous images Mark.

Phil

Astrophil

Your setup and processing is working well, David.

Phil

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Simon, those are really, really good!

Phil

Astrophil

Hi All, It was a challenging session today imaging through thin clouds. Rather long exposure times and variable brightness during captures but the results seemed worthy of posting. There was quite a bit to see with numerous small regions of activity. I concentrated on the two major ones. Taken with ...

Astrophil

Nice image, David, It shows the AR very well. Interesting prom too.

Phil

Astrophil

Stunning images, Alexandra. That kind of imaging just can’t be done with small scopes. Makes it worth the effort I’m sure.

Phil

Astrophil

Excellent capture of the new AR, all lights and scopes. I think I know where your clouds went.

Phil

Astrophil

The images are very good Peter, quite informative and helpful with the descriptions. Thanks.

Phil

Astrophil

That’s a wonderful image, Maurits. Great tonal balance and attention to details. Really nice.

Phil

Astrophil

Thanks again for the kind words.

Alexandra, the filter I'm using is a Solar Spectrum, Solar Observer SO-1.5 0.3ang. 25mm aperture. It's nice but still needs flats.

Phil

Astrophil

Hello again, By now AR12826 has passed over edge but what a fun few days it has been watching it. Today’s seeing was not great here and fine details were lost in the turbulence. Some images today are for the record and some just for fun. Thanks for looking. Phil 20210528_085234_AR2824_AR2826_WL.jpg ...

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