CaK Proms 16th December

The custom CaK filter is pretty decent at bringing out proms if the sky is transparent enough coupled with a bit of post processing.

Saturday Sunshine 9th January

Despite the day starting with a heavy bad of rain for several hours, by lunchtime the sky had transformed to (nearly!) blue skies. It was very windy though and blowing the lids of all my scope cases shut along with nearly blowing the laptop off. I was chasing the sun with the travelling kit through the gaps in the trees on the southern horizon. Seeing was terrible, and kept me busy searching for a focus that wasn't really there to begin with. Still, I managed to get a trio disks. First up 430nm Gband, taken 50mm f12 with the Zwo18mm Then CaK, 60mm f10 with the zwo183mm And finally the Ha full disk, taken with the setup in the picture - DS50, 2x cemax and the zwo183mm... Despite the awful seeing and low sun, I was glad to get something. Anything at this time of year is a bonus!

Trio of Disks - 25th November

A lovely clear blue sky gave me the opportunity to capture the late autumn sunshine. Trees block the horizon so using the scopes on the solarquest mount and tripod means I can find a spot in the garden to peek in the gaps in the cluttered southern horizon.

Saturday Sunshine 11th November

Finally some sunshine! Used the travelling kit as the battery has died for the EQ6 on the pier.

Tuesdays Trio of Disks - 5th September

The clear skies and the warm temperatures carry on as we start September.

Mondays Trio of Disks - 4th September

An early autumn heatwave means some time for solar after work!

Ha Sun 30th August

The clouds cleared by late evening so I was able to take a look at our star in Ha wavelengths.

CaK Sun 30th August

The day started with clear blue skies and so decent transparency, so I decided to take a look at the sun in CaK. Full disk 60mm f10 zwo183mm, closeups 80mm f15 zwo290mm.

Quiet Sun 22nd August

The sun has plenty of activity but is fairly quiet in terms of flare activity and the like. Taken with a pair of Lunt50 etalons on the 60mm f6 scope, a 2x cemax running on a short nosepiece and the zwo183mm camera. The etalons were not playing today getting on band without tilt, I need to look at a way of permanently screwing the etalons onto the scope rather than them being attached to the OTA by means of a cell.

17th August - Sun from the Canal Side

Nice to stop in my favourite spot just outside of Brewood and get a bit of solar observing in!

Quick CaK Sunshine 4th August

Just enough time in between the cloud streamers and gusty wind to grab a few CaK pickies...

Wednesdsay Flaring 26th July

A clear start to the day, but I only managed to image between the M-class flares that were popping off throughout the day. Equipment details in the file names.

Finally Some Sunshine... 25th July

Life has been too busy! The weather has been awful, finally the sun came out and I had some time!

Double DIsks 20th May

Saturday was a nice sunny day, clear blue skies! Alas I didn't have much time so only managed a quick couple of disks. First off the white light, taken with the Skywatcher ED80 at f7.5 with the Lunt Solar wedge, continuum filter and the ZWO183mm. Second up is the CaK disk, taken with the same scope but at 60mm f10, homebrew CaK filter and the zwo183mm again. I love this camera with it's small 2.4um pixels for full disks!

ATrio of Disks 15th May

It's been a funny old year for solar this year, just not the opportunity for various reasons to get out there and see the sun. So, I was really pleased after finishing work to get sunshine and clear blue skies. The warm summer evenings meant I just had to get outside and image!

Ha Full Disk 29th April

It's been a while since i've got round to putting up some images here. Full disk taken with the LC50 etalon on the 60mm f6 scope, TZ4, Solar SPectrum 0.3a, 0.65x telecompressor and ZWO183mm with 2x2 binning. Lots of contrast and quite difficult to get even, but slow exposure time means I probaly won't be using it as my regular grab and go gor full disks.

Ha Full Disk 12th March

The weather has been awful of late, so when sunday offered something almost resembling clear (well hazy really!) skies I decided to just get the scope and go fishing for the less hazy breaks. Seeing was awful and are loosing resolution even at the full disk scale, but, it is nice just to be able to see the sun really!

Ha Sunshine 26th February

A nice afternoon of sunshine!