New Active Region 8th March

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New Active Region 8th March

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Conditions were tricky this morning, a cold front passing through overnight meant Sunday dawned with a showery unstable air mass, complicating imaging by 2 different layers of haze moving across the sky meaning it was very much a case of watching the laptop screen and when free of clouds pressing record.

First off the full disk with the travelling scope - a Lunt50 etalon double stacked with a daystar Quark, the disk is a bit rough and ready but gives a good overview of things:

Imageha-fd-ds-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Imageha-fd-ds-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Following a shower I switched scopes for the SM90 and the 2x cemax barlow for (as yet) the undesignated active region:

Images6386-ss90-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Images6386-ss90-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Double stacking the SM90 with a Quark gave a bit more image scale and also more contrast, however the temperature hadn't settled on the quark so gives a slightly more uneven field than I know I can get:

Images6386-ds90-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Images6386-ds90-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

A particulary dark cloud was racing towards me then heralding the next shower, so, deciding I was going to get all I could realistically today I decided to pack up and head inside. Nice to get both some sun and also some activity.

Hope the sun is shining for you.

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Love the closeup Mark.


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Lovely captures Mark!

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Hi Mark,

Very nice images as well as the close up

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Thanks guys for the kind words.

There were also some proms, taken with the SM90, 2x cemax and IMX174 camera...

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Awesome images Mark, finally some action on the sun. Very cool AR shots. Triangular?


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Mark:
Very clean and crisp shots all of them.
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Absolutely awesome images Mark! The detail in the active region is impressive. If I could only see it visually that large and sharp.

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Nice processing on the AR.


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Looking good Mark.


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Well done!
Looked very similar for me....


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Excellent, Mark. Lovely images of this new active region and proms. I had a really busy weekend decorating which curtailed my solar time, only getting a few minutes on Friday. Unfortunately this was before the spot emerged. :(

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A terrific set of images, Mark. You succeeded in getting very good results in spite of the conditions.

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That is a mighty fine collection Mark, the double stack AR shot is a real beauty, and also super to see you imaging some prominences :bow :hamster:
You were much braver than I :)
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Woohoo! Thanks for the SPoD!


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