Saturdays Ha Sunshine 12th July

Finally a decent seeing, decent transparency and some time to do some solar. Taken with the trusty Coronado DS60. I'm really pleased with this scope as offeres a sweetspot in terms of resoultion and the seeing that I get all to often.

Thursday Sunshine 26th June

Another Thursday, another quick solar session after work. The seeing was slighty better than previous sessions, but 60mm Ha and 40mm CaK seems my afternoon ceiling in terms of seeing. Still nice to see the sun and all the filaments that were visible.

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!