A nice little active region getting closer to the solar limb taken with the Daystar Quark, Skywatcher ED80, Baader Solar Telecompressor and the PGR Blackfly GigE IMX249 camera. Nice detail given the poor seeing conditions that were seen on the morning the picture was taken.
Whether I just got lucky with the seeing with yesterdays Quarks shots I don't know, but I really didn't expect them to turn out at all, and, in fact they turned out to be the best shots of yesterday. Weird, I know! Anyway, this was taken with the ED80, Baader solar telecompressor and the PGR Blackfly GiGE IMX249 camera.
I really struggled with low transparency and poor seeing with this full disk taken with the DS40 at 650mm focal length.
The seeing was awful under the unstable air we have at the moment, and would not allow me to use my usual 1900mm focal length with the 60mm scope, so, had to back off to 1050mm instead. This image taken with the homebrew CaK filter and PGR Blackfly gigE IMX249 camera.
Finally a bit of activity on the nearside of the sun, taken with the 40mm at 650mm snf the homebrew CaK filter.
This has to be one of the blankest solar disks i've seen for sometime, not much happening at all on there! A hazy sky resulted in background light levels being a bit higher than I like in the photo, but, given the lack of real solar observing sessions this July i'll go with this image! Taken with the Coronado DS40 at 650mm focal length using a PGR Blackfly GigE IMX249 camera.
A quick CaK shot of our star through the early morning haze taken with the 40mm scope at 650mm focal length.
