Sunday Sunshine - 28th February

[marktownley]

For the 3rd day in a row (must be a record!) the day dawned sunny and clear, and I was keen to observe. Starting at around 9am with the 120mm scope at f28 for Ha, and again found myself fighting the seeing which was deteriorating by the minute. First off our departing active region and a bit of aggressive post processing to try and claw something back.

ar12804-ha-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

ar12804-ha-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

I did a quick scoot around the limb for the proms as the disk itself was pretty blank.

prom-4 by Mark Townley, on Flickr

prom-3 by Mark Townley, on Flickr

prom-1 by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Switching down to the 50mm double stack setup was giving better outcomes in the turbulent atmosphere.

Ha-FD-DS50-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Ha-FD-DS50-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

And a look round at the areas of activity:

filaprom-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

filaprom-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

ar12805-ha-DS50-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

ar12805-ha-DS50-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

ar12804-HA-DS50-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

ar12804-HA-DS50-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

An hour or two later and after a bit of lunch and the sun out of the trees and I decided to have a look in Cak, using the 40mm scope. First off the full disk and the good sky transparency was ideal for CaK proms.

CaK-FD-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

CaK-FD-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

And a look around the areas of interest, apologies for the bunnies!

efr-cak-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

efr-cak-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

ar12805-cak-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

ar12805-cak-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

ar12804-cak-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

ar12804-cak-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

All in all a nice 3 days spent in the garden in the sunshine, definitely better than being at work and it being foggy like it was today!

Hope you like.

Mark

[solardave]

a nice harvest there mark

[Carbon60]

An excellent haul of images, Mark.

Stu.

[ffellah]

A nice session in spite of the seeing. Your 50mm rocks, the FDs came out really well.

Franco

[JochenM]

Good set of images there, Mark.

[Montana]

You really are a master the top image is like a beautiful fine pencil drawing, wonderful detail

I hope this spring will be like the last one
Alexandra

[MapleRidge]

Superb series of images Mark...very well done

Brian

[MAURITS]

Lots of superb images Mark.