Thursdays Disks 19th June

The hot weather carries on, today was hotter but both transparency and seeing were better than the day before. Note, seeing was just better than yesterday, not good!

Wednesday Trio of Disks 18th June

The clear skies continue, the temperatures hotter and the seeing only allows the smaller apertures, hence, full disks.

Mondays Sun - 16th June

Good weather returns to the UK, and with the high temperatures and urban environment poorer seeing, but, atleast I can see the sun!

Trio of Disks 1st June

I don't seem to be getting anywhere as much time as I would like for solar imaging at the moment, still the first of June offered some clear skies very first thing, even with poor seeing to get a trio of disks.

Thursday Sunshine 24th April

Been struggling to keep the website updated lately, but here is the sunshine from Thursday 24th April take with the double stacked Coronado 60mm scope.

Partial Solar Eclipse 29th March

Cloud meant I missed the very start and very end of the eclipse, but I did get the bit in the middle on the whole, which, is the important bit I guess. It was my first opportunity to test the double stack on my SM60, it was literally setup for the first time 30 minutes before the start of the eclipse. It seems to work well though, and the next step with it will be to see if the double stack etalon benefits from the compression mod, which worked really well with the primary etalon of this setup. 500 frame exposures were taken, with a 3 second gap between, resulting in an animation of over 200 total frames. Setup was the Coronado DS60 at f11 with the ZWO183mm camera.

Trio of Disks 16th March

A trio of disks from Sunday...

Four Full Disks 15th March

4 different scopes in the gaps on a semi sunny saturday!

Sunday Sunshine 9th March

Sundays skies were hazy, very hazy, but with variable transparency which made imaging difficult. The seeing was pretty decent though, and I think I have achieved my best resolution yet with the Coronado SM60. Absolutely love this scope, it has an etalon with good finesse, and after the compression mod is completely even across the disk.

Ha FD Coronado DS40 - 8th March

It's taking quite a bit of work to get a usable image out of this little double stacked Coronado scope, but, I think i'm getting there with it. Experimenting with the order of the etalons, compression and tilt tuning, and a new DERF has resulted in improvements. Possibly still more to go too!