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Sun September 7th

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A hot sunny day here and this morning, early on, the seeing was pretty good but degrading rapidly. I decided to set up the 150mm/DS Lunt35 mod and focus on the main active regions.

Here they are imaged using a Basler acA1920-155um and a 2.5x Powermate. I felt confident enough to run a few through a 5x PM with mixed results.

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Image20210907_Ha_AR2866_AR2868_x2.5 by Stuart Green, on Flickr

Image20210907_Ha_AR2866_AR2868_x2.5_Colour by Stuart Green, on Flickr

Here's AR2866 with the 5X PM. Not ideal, but worth a try.

Image20210907_Ha_AR2866_x5 by Stuart Green, on Flickr

...and it's close partner AR2868....

Image20210907_Ha_AR2868_x5 by Stuart Green, on Flickr

AR2864 with a trio of light bridges, probably indicating this one is about to decay.

Image20210907_Ha_AR2864_x2.5 by Stuart Green, on Flickr

Finally AR2863

Image20210907_Ha_AR2863_x2.5 by Stuart Green, on Flickr

Tomorrow is also supposed to be a nice day, so fingers crossed.

Thanks for looking.

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Oh yes Stu, these are absolutely beautiful and quite stunning - whilst taken on such a hot and beautiful day.

Thanks vm for sharing
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Nicely done Stu. Usually I'm partial to greyscale but today it's the color for some reason. Super closeups as well.
Thanks

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Very good images!


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Many thanks, Terry, Phil and Marios.

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Great images there Stu, nice resolutions

I was able to capture some HR images late in the afternoon today with good seeing as well


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Pretty nice images!! Thank you for sharing.


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It is always a pleasure to see your 150mm/DS LS35 images, Stu! very nice, as always.

Nice to see the sun activity grow.


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Stu,
All are superb but I am biased on the one with the brilliant red=orange color. It just " pops "!!

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Very good Stu! Hope you get more today...


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These are excellent, Stu.

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Many thanks, everyone.

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Absolutely beautiful images Stu.


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Stunning work, Stu!

I particularly like the last shot!

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DeepSolar64 wrote: Wed Sep 08, 2021 4:26 am Stu,
All are superb but I am biased on the one with the brilliant red=orange color. It just " pops "!!

James
I'm the same, I'm a sucker for colorized versions. I know its not scientifically accurate, but I love the emotion it injects into the images:)


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