New Active Region in CaK - 31st March
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New Active Region in CaK - 31st March
Following on from imaging in Ha this morning, this afternoon presented a few fleeting gaps in what was generally continuous cloud cover, so, I took the opportunities to get some views in the short end of the spectrum. Seeing wasn't great, but, better than nothing. Full disk taken with the ED80 (stopped down to 60mm), 1.4x barlow, home brew CaK filter and the GH3 U3 916M camera:
Cak-fd-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Cak-fd-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Swapping the barlow for a 3x and the camera for the IMX174 chipped PGR, I took a closer view:
CaK-Close-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
CaK-Close-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Surprised me how dark the sunspot is, guess I forgot what they are like! Hope there are clear skies where you are and hope you get a look.
Mark
Cak-fd-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Cak-fd-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Swapping the barlow for a 3x and the camera for the IMX174 chipped PGR, I took a closer view:
CaK-Close-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
CaK-Close-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Surprised me how dark the sunspot is, guess I forgot what they are like! Hope there are clear skies where you are and hope you get a look.
Mark
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Re: New Active Region in CaK - 31st March
Pretty nice coverage of the AR/spot, Mark. Fingers crossed for some more opportunities (with hopefully good seeing) this week.
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Re: New Active Region in CaK - 31st March
Mark,
The spot shows up really well!
James
The spot shows up really well!
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Re: New Active Region in CaK - 31st March
Hi Mark,
Very good CaK images of that spot and looking at SDO magnetogramm it belong to cycle 25
Rainer
Very good CaK images of that spot and looking at SDO magnetogramm it belong to cycle 25
Rainer
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Re: New Active Region in CaK - 31st March
Hi Mark, very nice work!
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Thanks guys for the nice comments.
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Re: New Active Region in CaK - 31st March
Beautiful images Mark you were really lucky to get the opportunity to see the new AR
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Re: New Active Region in CaK - 31st March
Very nice images Mark! You finally got what you are dreaming about - sunspot and good seeing in CaK!
Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for sharing.
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Re: New Active Region in CaK - 31st March
Good job Mark. I hope I will able to image the new AR in the next couple of days
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Re: New Active Region in CaK - 31st March
Very nice Mark, love the closeups of the spot. They really do exist!
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Re: New Active Region in CaK - 31st March
Excellent views of AR2759, Mark. I saw this morning the spot was named.
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Re: New Active Region in CaK - 31st March
Mark:
Beautiful clean and crisp CaK images.
Best wishes,
Eric.
Beautiful clean and crisp CaK images.
Best wishes,
Eric.
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Re: New Active Region in CaK - 31st March
Thanks for the kind words everyone!
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