The seeing was far from perfect this morning with passing clouds, however using the Airlylab SSM along with the seeing plugin in Firecapture meant I was able to record only the best ones. The Airylab HaT and 0.7x reducer was used with the Daystar Quark and PGR IMX249 camera. This small active region seems to have diminished in activity since yesterday.
The seeing was pretty rough when this image was taken and was a struggle to get enough decent frames to do something with. The Airylab HaT, with 0.7x reducer was used along with the Daystar Sodium Quark and PGR IMX249 to give a focal length about 6m. Just plain old granulation mid disk!
Trying something a bit different this morning, I bought a Celestron 0.7x Edge HD reducer to bring the focal ratio back down to f7, something that i've found with my other scopes to offer a sweet spot with the Daystar Quark. Immediately both visually and also on the laptop screen that contrast was favourable. The seeing was also not too bad so I decided to rattle off some frames of AR12717. Overall i'm pleased with this new configuration and look forward to trialling it further when sky conditions are better. Taken with a PGR IMX249 camera.
This animation spanning ten minutes shows the rise and fall of solar granules, while the small spot associated with this new active region remains relatively static. There also appears to be a number of small pores in this active region. Taken with the ED80, Daystar Sodium Quark and the PGR IMX249 camera.
You have to look carefully at the moment as we head towards solar minimum for details on the sun, but today we have a newly designated active region, AR12717. This has a small single spot with some signs of pores around it. It is Quite bright in Ha light. Also visible is a small emerging flux region with signs of the magnetised plasma churning around. The rest of the disk is essentially blank. Taken with the double stacked Lunt50 etalons, BF15, PGR IMX249 camera.
This as yet undesignated active region appears to be having a bit of a surge in activity and has developed a small single sunspot. Whether this will develop any more is anyones guess. This was taken with the Skywatcher ED80, Beloptik Tri-band ERF, 2.5x barlow, homebrew CaK filter and the PGR IMX249 camera.
Over the past week or so a region of filaments has slowly marched towards the suns limb, when they reached they put on a great display of prominences for a couple of days too before heading over the solar limb. This shot was taken with the DS50 and PGR Ch3 camera.
