Session time is 12:00pm EST local time ( US ). The skies are mostly cloudy. Seeing is about average. Not bad for once! The temperature is 36F. Orion 70mm Solar Telescope. 27.5x and 83x ( WL ) I got two small sunspots in the northwest quadrant of the disc. Side by side with the easternmost one being ...

If only I was good enough to submit an image. Maybe in the future.

rsfoto wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:06 pm

Hi James,

Well done. Have not been able to open the roof of my Observatory as all day long we have winds up to 60 km/h ...

My weather here has been poor over the last couple of weeks too. It's really slowed down my observations. You have high winds and I have ice forecast for tonight.

Thanks for the imaging encouragement everyone. The whole bit seems a bit complex and bewildering to me but I am gonna give it a whirl. I don't intend to stop my visual sessions here but would like to be able to re-enforce my work more with my own images and not relying on GONG and SDO imagery so muc...

Thanks Terry. I am waiting for some spots! Real ones. Not tiny pores.

Nigella, You have done beautifully with these. I'll have to install Autostakkert on my Windows 8.1 laptop. I hope it doesn't crash. Now if I can only learn to do beautiful images like you do. It looks a bit bewildering to me. But I will certainly try it. I have skills at visual astronomy but am very...

marktownley wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 16, 2021 7:12 pm

Thanks for the report James! Glad you got some sun, it is quiet apart from the prominences at the moment. Good to hear you starting to fire up the camera, for years I just used a cardboard box as a light shroud for my laptop

I was thinking of a cardboard box or plastic tote.

Session time is Noon to 12:45pm EST local time ( US ). The skies are partly cloudy with below average seeing. The temperature is 37F. Coronado SolarMax II 60DS. 16x and 22x ( Ha ) I see two easy filaments in the SW quadrant of the disc. With a bit more difficulty I can see four other filaments in th...

That is a beautiful well done CaK disc Mr. Townley. The sun is not very active but it's still nice.

Very nice Stu! I was able to get a few of those filaments today visually.

I would not know. I haven't had a sunny day since the 10th. Thanks for the updates Terry.

Yep. They do look like missiles. Without warheads or nose-cones!

Your seeing looks like what mine does Pavel! Still you did well catching the ISS crossing the solar disc.

It looks very calm today. And cold. Nice images!

Sweet comparison Pedro, love it! The double stack is the best balance of chromosphere and resolution. While the triple stack shows supreme contrast on chromosphere features, it came at a compromise as the features themselves seems blurred, maybe from capture time from dim transmission? Not sure. Ve...

The triple stack certainly has the contrast but seems to lack a little on the resolution compared to the double stack. Thumbs up on the Pronto!

That Coronado SolarMax II 60 images well. Are you single stack or double stack?

Rainer got a pore in white light in that SE faculae/plage area.

Your Ha image shows that SE filament up very well. I can also see the tiny pore in your WL image.

Very nice work, as usual.

Thank you Pedro. That's a BIG thumbs up from me!

Thank you Pedro. That's a BIG thumbs up from me!

Thanks for the update Terry. Clouds/rain here in WNC so I have to rely on SolarChat and SDO and GONG to see the Sun today.

James

It looks like the proms have waned down a bit.

Pedro!
This is a truly awesome run of images! And you used my two favorite of your scopes, The Pronto and the Helios 1. I always check out your last " three light " image also since it contains a white light view. Today I am cloudy so that's important. Thanks for the wonderful views!

James

Pedro!
This is a truly awesome run of images! And you used my two favorite of your scopes, The Pronto and the Helios 1. I always check out your last " three light " image also since it contains a white light view. Today I am cloudy so that's important. Thanks for the wonderful views!

James