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Sunday Sun 24th June

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A beautiful blue sky day here, albeit with some high haze this morning during my solar session and the seeing wasn't great with only the briefest of moments of average to good.

I spent most of my time using my 72mm refractor fitted with a Lunt B600 CaK filter to capture a full disk using a 2.5x TV Powermate, and a panorama with a 5x TV Powermate for a closer view. The conditions favoured the blue end of the spectrum. Switching to Ha I thought I'd push things with my 150/DS Lunt 35 (no chance with the 250mm RCT) but the seeing made everything difficult. AR 2713 on the limb was putting on a good show in Ha with some fine looping proms and an undesignated active region with bright plage in CaK looked pretty spectacular close up in Ha. I couldn't get anything worth showing of AR 2715 for some reason.

Anyhow, here they are......

Image20180624_CaK_FD by Stuart Green, on Flickr

Image20180624_CaK_FD_Colour by Stuart Green, on Flickr

Panorama with TV Powermate x5

Image20180624_CaK_Panorama by Stuart Green, on Flickr

Image20180624_CaK_Panorama_Colour by Stuart Green, on Flickr

Fine looping proms above AR2713

Image20180624_Prom_Colour by Stuart Green, on Flickr

And an undesignated active region with filament

Image20180624_Ha_AR_Mosaic by Stuart Green, on Flickr

Image20180624_Ha_AR_Mosaic_Colour by Stuart Green, on Flickr

Thanks for looking.

Stu.


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Fantastic images, Stu, all of them. You made my day ! Incredible chromosphere detail, awesome prominences and very sharp disks....

You had a great session :bow :band

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Post by marktownley »

Looking good Stu. I showed CaK on the laptop screen to people today at Keele. Your images came out well, I do like the Ha shots in particular.


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Post by Christopher »

Excellent images Stu. Watching this prominence region during the cloud breaks today. It’s a dynamic one for sure.


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Stu:
Super shots, specially the Ha ones.
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Post by Montana »

Cracking shots Stuart, I love the close up of the active region on the limb, I love the wispy loops, that is a superb capture :bow
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Many thanks, everyone. Some days the Sun puts on a beautiful display. I was lucky enough to capture some of the action.

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Great set Stu.


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