April 18 2021 Imaging.

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April 18 2021 Imaging.

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Today I set behind the telescopes from between 10:50am until 2:00pm EDT local time ( US ) Most of this was just sitting listing to music while waiting for holes in an almost solid cloud deck. 90 percent of the time sitting vs 10 percent imaging. I never did get a chance to observe visually! The seeing was fair and the temperature 63F.

Today I successfully imaged full-disc with the SMII 60 after resetting the T-Max tuning peg to get it on band. I ended up still a bit off band on my full disc " surface " image but that was my fault for not quite getting the tuning right. I had it dead-on yesterday visually. I picked up the proms today using it. Something I found almost impossible before resetting the tuner. I could see them in DS but not in SS and I certainly could not image them. Today I succeeded!

I used the Orion 70mm White Light solar refractor with the 540nm filter to image full-disc white light today.

Both scopes are using my ZWO ASI178mm camera.

My music selections for today were:

Eric Whitachre: Deep Field.
Mike Oldfield: Return to Ommadawn.
Heavy Metal Movie Score: Elmer Bernstein.
Gustav Holst: The Planets.
Lars Leonhard: Deep Venture.


Enjoy

James



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Re: April 18 2021 Imaging.

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Oh very nice James and the music choice too.
All the artists are excellent, but the Planet Suite would be my favourite choice and of course appropriate for us astro-lookers.

The imaging is coming-on very-well and AR2816 is a splendid capture. Proms few and far between and shallow, but hey can't have everything...

My day, other than watching F!, was installing a newly acquired UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) in the observatory, which required it's own HD-shelf, as is quite heavy. Now when the mains power goes-out (outage as some say) it will make little difference for a short while at least. That outage has happened a couple of times this year, so hopefully in future I have an alternative + a petrol-generator, which will also be installed shortly (outside of course)...!!!

Well done James
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In addition to my previous,
Watch the S.E. Limb for a possible exciting AR which CME'd yesterday and coming into view in the next day or so...

Cheers
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Re: April 18 2021 Imaging.

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Terry,
The proms weren't much better visually for me but others, like Rainer picked them up better in their images than I could see them visually.
Thanks for the heads up on a possible active region coming around the eastern limb. I will keep my eye out.

Blessings:
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Thanks James and yes now looking at several other prom-captures tonight, they did seem to be around.

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Nicely processed James and a fine music selection.


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Thanks Maurits!


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