This little area was at the time the image taken un-named, but it does look like it will develop into a fully fledged active region. Conditions were too poor for effective use of the HaT today so I decided to give the 127mm Meade AR5 a go with the Daystar Quark. It worked quite well, but the Beloptik tri-band cuts just a little too much light for my liking, so may replace it for a Baader D-ERF instead. Using the PGR Blackfly GigE IMX249 camera.
This small active region has a central spot that is partially hidden in the plasma in the chromosphere. Taken with the ED80, Daystar Quark and the PGR Blackfly IMX249 camera.
As AR12585 approached the solar limb it looked very photogenic surrounded by a host of filaments, filaproms and prominences. Looking through the eyepiece this was a joy to look at. Taken with the skywatcher ED80, Daystar Quark and the PGR Blackfly IMX249 GigE camera.
A lovely big prominence visible today in this image taken with a Lunt 50 etalon at focal length of ~500mm with the PGR Chameleon 3 camera. It is taking a bit of doing to get this (double stack) etalon to work like this, but, I think i'm slowly getting there with it!
The high cloud and haze was not supporting hi-res imaging in CaK wavelengths this morning, but it was nice to zoom in a little on both of these active regions using the 60mm scope at 1500mm focal length with the PGR Chameleon 3 and the homebrew CaK filter.
Things have been pretty busy this past month with one thing or another, and is the first time i've managed to get any solar imaging in for virtually a month! It was nice to see todays full disk in calcium light with the 40mm scope at ~500mm focal length with the PGR Chameleon 3 camera and home brew CaK filter. Quite a bit going on considering we are heading into solar minimum.
It was just getting dark on the evening of Wednesday 31st august and with a Kp4 forecast for northern lights it wasn't long until it they started to show themselves in the twilight sky. The aurora was very dynamic, and, at times bright too, illuminating the landscape and surroundings. This is a 30 minute timelapse with 4 images a minute taken with the Canon 350D, iso800, 30s exposure with the Sigma 10mm f4 lens. I also worked out how to apply a flat in photoshop to remove the hot pixels from the ageing Canon 350D that was quite effective, next step will be to apply this and also to apply some data from magnetometers to produce a sound track to the 'HD' version of the animations i've captured over the 2 weeks I recently spent in Iceland.
