Images of the Sun, our local star, at a range of wavelengths with specialist solar telescopes. Imaging tutorials, solar bits and pieces for sale, talks and outreach with the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project CBSAP.
There's lots happening on the sun at the moment, over the past couple of days a series of large active regions has rotated over the suns north eastern limb. These have been very active crackling with both M and X class flares. If you have a solar telescope now is the time to take a look and see our star at it's most fiery!
Lovely crescent moon tonight - taken with the `100/800 APM scope and ICX814 chipped camera.
Sunday was a predominantly cloudy day, with only brief sunny spells, so when a 15 minute gap in the late afternoon presented itself I was keen to make the most of it. Still not got the clocking 100% correct on this etalon setup but are not too far off. This setup makes for a nice detalied grab and go portable bit of kit!
I continue to be impressed with the DS50 setup, lots of detail, just in the process of dialling in the best tuning for it. The contrast and transmission are both high with this setup.
First light for this new solar setup and the results are very promising!!!
The seeing was awful today, but it was nice to get the first run out of the year with the double stack 50 setup and the travelling kit. The sun was nice and busy, and the counterweight mod on the Skywatcher AzGTi has increased load capacity nicely. Gives me some high hopes with the travelling kit for later in the year!
