The light at sunrise was simply amazing this morning here in Iceland! Twilight lasts for 2 hours at this latitude this time of the year, and so it was a pleasure to watch the changing hues over time!
Following 2 days of auroral storms, the solar wind was still flowing in excess of 600km/s, which is pretty fast. As a result as soon as it started to go dark there were aurora visible here in Iceland. This animation spans 30 minutes from sunset and was taken with a Canon 350D, Sigma 10mm f4 lens, 20s exposure at iso 800. The aurora were visible for the whole of the night and were lovely to see again!
The seeing conditions weren't great when I imaged my full disk in Ha, but the passing of a weather front meant the air was very transparent and so I had some hope for calcium imaging. I used the ED80 stopped down to 60mm along with the homebrew CaK filter. Looking at the enlarged image it is possible to see the spicule ring around the edge of the sun, along with faint prominences. Looking at the centre of the disk it is possible to see the inverse granulation that characterises the view in Calcium light.
Poor weather has meant it's seemed like an age since I was able to do any solar observing, Saturday arrived and despite the sun being blank I decided to get the scopes out and observe. The northern polar regions were the most interesting with a hedgerow like filament and bright points corresponding to polar faculae. Taken with a Lunt50 etalon on the ED60 that was double stacked with a Daystar Quark.
