3-Lights from Monday 6th September 2021.

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3-Lights from Monday 6th September 2021.

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Another session on Monday afternoon allowed for some finer-settings of the newbie SODIUM QUARK and its' SharpCap download program. :P

There was a constant high/thin cloud layer with some lower clouds occasionally interfering, but with a nice 21-degsC temperature was nice to work-in with the roof open and allowing for other jobs to be completed, before an accurate and final-alignment of the SkyWatcher 'ESPRIT' scope with the Quark - and to be aligned between the Ha and Cal-K scopes

Also a planned use of the Hydrogen-Alpha Double-Stack to the Lunt 60mm scope was planned and successfully and simply tuned to the first Etalon.

NOTEABLE was the fact the the Ha image with the Double Stack showed the proms quite well, even with low speeds for the surface-detail capture,
so was well-pleased for that and is very likely the DS will remain in place for the foreseeable future and may perform better when the skies allow.

So with the not-brilliant clear-sky, the attached images are shown.
All images so far from the 5th and 6th - are single-frame captures, as insufficient time for processing at the moment, albeit numerous Gbytes of AVI's to be reviewed and/or processed for any better results.

Thanks for looking
Terry
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6-9-2021 1419z SODIUM AR2866 & AR2868.jpg
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6-9-2021 1505z DOUBLE-STACKED Ha includes Proms.jpg
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4-9-2021 2111z SDO-MAP latest_2048_HMII.jpg
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Re: 3-Lights from Monday 6th September 2021.

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Very good Terry! The sun is nice and busy at the moment.


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Post by EGRAY_OBSERVATORY »

Thank you Mark.
The sky now at mid-day today is beautiful, but oh !! so hot at over 30-degsC outside and likely 40-degsC in the observatory.
"Indian Summer" or what...

Terry


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