Sun Saturday 8th August 2020

[Carbon60]

Hi all,

Some images in Ha and CaK from this morning which turned out much better than forecast with significant cloud cover melting away to leave a beautiful blue sky with pretty good seeing. Quite unexpected and a welcome break from the grey.

First up a six pane Ha full disk with three in a row cycle 25 features (AR2770 and two magnetically disturbed regions).
DS Lunt 60.
Basler acA1920-155um
Powermate x2.5

20200808_Ha_FD_Mono by Stuart Green, on Flickr

20200808_Ha_FD_colour by Stuart Green, on Flickr

Some closer views of the three features taken on my 150mm/DS Lunt 35 mod, same camera and powermate:

AR2770:
20200808_Ha_AR2770 by Stuart Green, on Flickr

The middle magnetically disturbed region:
20200808_Disturbed Region by Stuart Green, on Flickr

And the one closer to the limb.
20200808_Disturbed Region2 by Stuart Green, on Flickr

Over to the blue in Ca II K for a full disk.
Lunt B1800 module with omega and Baader K-line filters
Altair Astro Lightwave 72 mm f6
Balser 2440-75um
1.5x Barlow to fill the sensor.

20200808_CaK_FD by Stuart Green, on Flickr

20200808_CaK_FD_Colour by Stuart Green, on Flickr

and a closer view of AR2770
Lunt B600 with omega and Baader K-line filters
Technosky 125mm f7.8
Powermate x5

20200808_CaK_AR2770_Mono by Stuart Green, on Flickr

20200808_CaK_AR2770 by Stuart Green, on Flickr

Thanks for looking.

Stu.

[rsfoto]

Hi Stu,

Excellent images

[eroel]

Stu:
Super images.
Best regards.
Eric.

[dhkaiser]

Excellent FD's and closeups!

[EGRAY_OBSERVATORY]

All excellent images Stuart - thanks

Terry

[ffellah]

Great images, Stu. We just got power restored after 4 days with no electricity, TV and internet because of tropical storm Isaias passed through Westport. A small tornado landed on the beachside and made substantial damage. Wind up to 120 km/hour. Good to be back: fortunately we did not have damage to our home.

Franco

[DeepSolar64]

Excellent FD's and closeups! I love especially the full disk Ha and CaK images.

[marktownley]

A very productive run of images Stu, glad the weather broke for you, I noticed it was being rather gray and damp at times further north.

[JochenM]

Very nice, Stu. Brilliant detail in those closeups!

[Montana]

Wow!! well caught Stuart, the clouds just hug over Cheshire like a bad smell all day. Today is the same, it is so frustrating.

These are beautiful Stuart the seeing must be wonderful to see such detail at the moment (more frustration)

Alexandra

[grimble_cornet]

Great set of images Stu - love the hi res Ha.
I wondered where the increasing clouds and deteriorating seeing were coming from......... you obviously sent them south to irritate me!

[solardave]

fantastic images good job

[MAURITS]

Excellent Stu.

[Carbon60]

Many thanks, everyone. I really appreciate the feedback. The half decent weather is over for a while here and Indeed storms are expected later today and tomorrow after a hot and humid weekend in much of the UK.

I was busy yesterday gardening and, more interestingly, installing a USB radio system to detect meteors as they burn up in the upper atmosphere. I’ll check if it worked overnight later this morning.

Stu.

[Carbon60]

Great images, Stu. We just got power restored after 4 days with no electricity, TV and internet because of tropical storm Isaias passed through Westport. A small tornado landed on the beachside and made substantial damage. Wind up to 120 km/hour. Good to be back: fortunately we did not have damage to our home.

Franco

Hi Franco, It makes our weather seem pretty tame in comparison. Stay safe.

Stu.

[Carbon60]

Great set of images Stu - love the hi res Ha.
I wondered where the increasing clouds and deteriorating seeing were coming from......... you obviously sent them south to irritate me!

Hi Mike, Sorry about that. They had to go somewhere

Stu.