Yesterday crown prominence heralded something coming around the suns eastern limb; on Saturday morning the feature revealed itself as a trio of active sunspots, spitting plasma in a cauldron of turbulent magnetism. Seeing wasn't great but I got this image very first thing with the 100mm Tal refractor, double stacked quark, Baader solar telecompressor and the Imaging Source DMk31 camera.
Looks like we're about to get a new active region coming over the eastern limb, this crown prominence was spluttering and spitting on the live view from GONG and would have made a great timelapse, alas cloud was not being kind this friday and not giving up many opportunities for solar observing. Taken with the 100mm Tal100R refractor, double stacked daystar quark, baader solar telecompressor and Imaging source DMK31 camera.
The Tal100R shows itself to be a great performer with the double stacked Quark as shown in this image of the mega filament as it slowly winds it's way over the solar limb.
I've only recently started to image with the Tal 100R refractor and the double stacked Daystar Quark, Baader Solar Telecompressor and Imaging Source DMK31 camera, but I must say the initial results are promising, I particularly like the textured surfaces the sun takes on with this setup that has a sense of real depth and 3 dimensionality to it. All these images from Thursday were taken in less than ideal conditions with poor seeing and poor transparency, but recording 1000 frames and only stacking the best 25 seems to get acceptable results. The good weather is set to continue for a few more days at least here in the UK so hopefully should get a few more images in yet.
The northeastern quadrant of the sun had some lovely delicate proms and a filament visible, while conditions weren't great I managed a closeup with the 100mm Tal refractor, DS Quark, baader solar telecompressor and the Imaging Source DMK31 camera.
A closeup of the longest lasting filament i've seen for some time taken with the 100mm Tal refractor, Quark and DMK31 camera.
This mosaic taken with the 100mm Tal refractor and Daystar quark shows just how turbulent and angry this active region is.
