Sunday Sunshine

[MapleRidge]

Good day everyone...

The weather forecast for Sunday (April 28th) called for clear skies in the morning with increasing cloud and showers possible in the afternoon. The sun did arrive in the morning but the clouds came in early and the rain started and hasn't let up yet It has put a damper on the hopes to start getting some crop in a bit early here but not hurting yet.

I had a good start to imaging with FD in Ha, CaK, WL, and G-band but I was fighting the clouds when I tried to do higher resolution Ha. It would have been nice to have more item as there were 14 AR's identified, as well as several filaments a a few proms to add to the potential target list. The FD images are first, with the WL, G-band, and CaK all imaged through the Orion EON130 OTA with the ASI1600MM camera. The WL image used a Lunt Solar Wedge/Baader Continuum filter, the G-Band used the Altair 430nm/2nm filter, and the CaK was imaged through the Lunt B1800CaK module. Both the G-band and CaK had the scope stopped to 90mm:

OR130_WL_093020_FD.jpg (1.14 MiB) Viewed 410 times

OR130_G-430_095631_FD.jpg (739.01 KiB) Viewed 410 times

OR130_CaK_093748_FD.jpg (790.23 KiB) Viewed 410 times

While the G-band filter was in use, I changed to the ASI462MM camera and a 3x barlow to image the AR's in higher resolution:

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3x_OR130_G-430_101645_AR3651-3652.jpg (298.6 KiB) Viewed 410 times

3x_OR130_G-430_101757_AR3658.jpg (227.53 KiB) Viewed 410 times

3x_OR130_G-430_101353_AR3657-3654.jpg (441.83 KiB) Viewed 410 times

3x_OR130_G-430_101517_AR3655.jpg (417.25 KiB) Viewed 410 times

I moved to the Lunt solar scope to start Ha imaging and it was around this time the clouds started to drift in. The first is the Ha FD, usign a 1.6x barlow ahead of the ASI1600MM camera:

LS80T_LS75_102558_FD.jpg (839.92 KiB) Viewed 410 times

I added the 3x barlow to the Lunt scope to get a bit more image scale, but cloud ruined many of the captures and I was only bale to get a few frames to make a mosaic of the western disk and AR3654/3657 which was the star of the show:

3xLS80T_LS75_103659_West.jpg (959.3 KiB) Viewed 410 times

3xLS80T_LS75_104244_AR3657-3654.jpg (484.71 KiB) Viewed 410 times

There was a nice prom arching across the western limb but cloud really messed with the ability to recover much of an image but this was what I did catch...lots of artifacts to ignore

LS80T_LS75_104452_West-Prom.jpg (150.28 KiB) Viewed 410 times

This covers the session form April 28th, I hope you like the results!

Brian

[marktownley]

Nice results Brian, that CaK full disk has more contrast.

[Carbon60]

You had a good session, Brian. Nice results.

Stu.

[rigel123]

Excellent session Brian! Some amazing details in those G band closeups!

[MapleRidge]

Mark. Stuart, and Warren...

Thanks for all of your feedback and comments...always appreciated

Mark, I didn't do anything much different on the CaK at capture bu I may have made more adjustments post processing is Photoshop

Brian

[Dennis]

Nice collection Brian, glad you could take some shots before the rain.

[KMH]

Great session, Brian!

Kevin

[drewdavis]

Great photos!

[MapleRidge]

Dennis, Kevin and Drew...

Thanks for your comments on the session...much appreciated

Brian

[Peterm]

Wonderful set of images Brian.

[DavidP]

Those are some very nice images.
Particularly the Ca full disk and the WL close up AR3657.
Well done.

[ffellah]

Great session, Brian ! A wonderful set of images.

Franco

[MAURITS]

Very nice session Brian.

[MapleRidge]

Peter, David, Franco and Maurits...

Thanks fro your comments guys

Brian

[DeepSolar64]

Brian, I always enjoy your work and all looks good here but my favorites are the full disc CaK and the Gband closeups.

Good luck with the weather and the crops.

James

[MapleRidge]

Thanks James

Brian

[DeepSolar64]

You are welcome, Brian.

[pedro]

Great images there Brian

[arnedanielsen]

Great session Brian!