What I notice the most is how active the sun is compared to now.

Fortunately if the weather fails I have the NSO GONG network and NASA SDO to fall back on for an excellent, if not quite as personal a view. And of course all you guys and gals who weather permitting post excellent images and descriptions!

The wonders of the internet.

James

Very nice views of a calm sun Eric.

I plan to watch it. Weather permitting. I'll be observing the event from Rock Hill SC with a friend. He will have his Takahashi FS 102 set up for white light viewing. I wish he had a DayStar Quark for it.

Very nice images, Pedro!

I would love to look through the Lunt 60.

Very nice! I viewed these proms visually using my SM60 DS.

Very nice Franco. I didn't get to observe the sun at all yesterday. Completely overcast. Today has nice clear blue skies but the seeing is horrible.

James

Phil,

I viewed this one visually today too. I like the color of the last picture. Probably because it is a bit closer to the color as seen in the eyepiece. That little Questar does very well. But they were always very high quality instruments.

James

Impressive resolution, especially on the granules!

James

Very nice! I viewed this one today through my Coronado Solarmax II 60 and got decent views at 16x 22x and 33x. 50x worked well too. I tried pushing the scope to 100 power and while I could detect the prominence It was spread out too much making it to dim to see any detail within it. Using lower to m...

Very nice solar photography Gabrieli! Though fairly faint and delicate in my SM II 60 I could still see a fair amount of detail in this prominence.

Very nice solar photography Gabrieli! Though fairly faint and delicate in my SM II 60 I could still see a fair amount of detail in this prominence.

Alexandra,

I am jealous. I would love to go to France and indeed to Pic Du Midi observatory. I love your pics. the detail is phenomenal. Thanks for sharing!!

James

Incredible! Your pictures show them so much better than I can see them in my SM 60.

Awesome! I saw it in the moring but it wasn't that big

James

Very nice prom. I missed this one. Cloudy here.

Valery,

Absolutely stunning! Incredible sub arc second resolution. This rivals many professional images I have seen.

James

Very nice Pedro.

I do look forward to solar max. I chose to buy an hydrogen-alpha scope at the worst possible time to observe the sun.

James

Lovely. I'll experiment with red 'h-alpha' coloring as well now. I don't see many people image in the natural color of red h-alpha light. It might give a visual observer as myself possibly a little clearer idea of what a feature would look like visually. Imaging proms in the beautiful pink-magenta ...

Incredible resolution!

Very nice!!

Robert.

I am sure in time I will dive in to solar imaging. Thanks for the advice.

James

Very nice Alfred. That kind of resolution is beyond the equipment I have now. I was curious just how much you could see visually. Cameras and processing usually reveal more than the eye alone can.

Stu,

Excellent!! I especially love the CaK and granulation images.

James