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stef41

thank you

yes, the sky is rather coronal at the moment

sincerely
stéphane

stef41

I would be curious how the coronagraph does As far as I know, it's a telescope with a metal cone inside the tube that hides the surface of the sun and a halpha filter. So you can only see the protuberances. The one at the observatory is very heavy, angled to be shorter .... and subject to wind (it ...

stef41

Hello everyone, the good weather continues on the Albion plateau in France, with a little more hairy sunshine than yesterday. At the fs60 with sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1.7 and zwo178mm around 12pm UT S20230812-11h55UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7-asi178mm.jpg S20230812-11h56UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10...

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thank you :) Your images look nice. Enjoy yourself, Stephane. I wish I had a place like that close to me that I could use. We do have a local observatory ( the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute, PARI ) but one has to pay to get in and have to reserve time to do it. They have a nice big observat...

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Hello everyone, big blue sky over the Sirene observatory (France) but a bit more turbulent than yesterday. S20230811-sirene-dalle.jpg At fs60 with sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1.7 and zwo178mm around 11h45 UT S20230811-11h43UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7-asi178mm.jpg S20230811-11h44UT-sm40DS-fs60...

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Hello everyone, I'm here for a few days at the Sirene observatory (in Provence, France ;) ); good weather is forecast for at least the next 8 days, so I'll be able to send you a daily sun report. (on the other hand, even at 1000 metres, we'll be getting 30°C every day!) S20230810-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gp...

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Hello everyone, I've just spent a few days with my family in the Vosges mountains, and I've finally had the chance to see the sun at the end of the day! (spoiler alert: to say that I didn't suffer from the previous heatwave is an understatement :) ). A fs60 with sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1...

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thank you :) I hope it's not too hot where you are. No, for the time being, France has been spared the heatwave affecting southern and eastern Europe (and the south-western United States, if I've followed correctly!). I'm leaving tomorrow for a few days in the east of France, in the Vosges mountains...

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hello, (yes, it's the bank holidays in France today) a lot of wind and turbulence today, but a blue sky between the clouds despite the harvest period in my Beauce region. At the fs60 with its sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1.7 and zwo178mm around 1pm UT S20230714-12h58UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7...

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Hello everyone, a sun made in the smoke of the Canadian fires currently passing over France.... :( At the fs60 with its sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1.7 and zwo178mm around 2pm UT S20230628-14h01UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7-asi178mm.jpg S20230628-14h00UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7-asi178mm.jpg Sin...

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Good evening everyone, Last Saturday, I had prepared my acquisitions a little better for a big event than on previous occasions: set up the day before to limit field rotation, add a clicklock at the end of the powermate to avoid possible tilt, check the focus more regularly and, above all, .... a pa...

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Hello everyone, warm sunshine today! :) At the fs60 with its sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1.7 and zwo178mm around 09h45 UT S20230624-09h46UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7-asi178mm.jpg S20230624-09h47UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7-asi178mm.jpg to the Mak 102/1325 with its D-ERF , powermate x2.5, quark c...

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I made the same .... only much worse!

superbe!

Sincerely
stéphane

stef41

good evening everyone, despite the clouds, I tried to make a small animation towards the large prominence present around 5 pm .... and I was surprised to see that it disappeared very quickly! Well, it's not great quality because of the clouds (transparency fluctuating or even non-existent ... and th...

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good morning, the sky was far too milky, heavy and hot (31°C in the shade!) to take out the mak .... so a quick sunny shot with the fs60 equipped with its sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1.7 and zwo178mm around 2:50 pm UT. S20230617-14h50UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7-asi178mm.jpg S20230617-14h52UT-...

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thanks to you :) Would be good to see the best still from this animation according to AS!3, it's this one: S20230614-15h55UT-DERF-mak102-powerx2.5-chromo-adc-asi178mm-b2-r85.jpg 3 hours is a little animation? 30min or 3h, it's all the same ... thanks to autoguiding ;) I said "small" becaus...

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Hello everyone, a little animation of last Wednesday's flying prominence with quite a bit of turbulence and, unfortunately, a still fluctuating focus. :( on Mak 102/1325 with D-ERF, powermate x2.5, quark combo chromo, ADC and zwo178mm binning x2 296 films of 600 frames every 30s between 13h16 and 16...

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rigel123 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2023 1:58 pm I believe your Earth may be a little large but I haven't tried to scale it.

yes, indeed, I forgot that it was binning x2!

this one would be better

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Sincerely,
stéphane

stef41

Hello everyone, my last animation in stock until the sun comes back and my schedule allows it (maybe next Wednesday?). A big animation in full sensor (the protuberance was important .... I took the opportunity to scale the earth...if I'm not mistaken :) ) which becomes blurred towards the end becaus...

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Hello everyone, a quick animation on an area that seemed promising because you can see (distinguish rather) a large protuberance in the upper left at the beginning of the anim ... which disappears like a soap bubble quickly :) So an animation just for the pleasure of seeing spicules dance :) on the ...

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good evening to all, third and last halpha animation made last saturday from my beauceron garden :) on the Mak 102/1325 equipped with its D-ERF, powermate x2.5, quark combo chromo, ADC and zwo178mm in binning x2 230 films of 600 frames every 30s between 14:30 and 17:03 UT firecapture 2.6 acquisition...

stef41

thank you

I tried to make version 2 a little softer and, above all, more uniform

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sincerely
stéphane

stef41

good evening everyone, some late afternoon images (in France) from the Mak 102/1325 equipped with its D-ERF, powermate x2.5, quark combo chromo, ADC and zwo178mm in binning x2 around 17h UT S20230607-16h52UT-DERF-mak102-powerx2.5-chromo-adc-asi178mm-b2.jpg S20230607-16h54UT-DERF-mak102-powerx2.5-chr...

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good evening everyone, little by little, I'm fine-tuning my acquisitions and processing with this new equipment. For example, I've just discovered that to avoid brightness fluctuations during animation, I need to do "dark tones / light tones" after alignment and cropping, hence the use of ...

stef41

good evening to all, on saturday, i wanted to try for the first time an animation on a "filaprom" ... i must not have chosen the right one, nothing much happens and the luminosity variations are a bit annoying, but hey ... A fs60 with sm40 double stack, BF10, x2 barlow lens in ADC, zwo178m...

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good evening everyone, no time for full disks at the fs60 today, only quark at the Mak :) At the Mak 102/1325 equipped with its D-ERF, powermate x2.5, quark combo chromo, ADC and zwo178mm in binning x2 around 09h20 UT S20230604-09h16UT-DERF-mak102-powerx2.5-chromo-adc-asi178mm-b2.jpg S20230604-09h18...

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good morning, nearly 6h non stop on the sun today :) the hard disk is full! We're starting with the "still" images, while waiting for the animations that will arrive over the next few days. it was a special filament day today! :) At the fs60 with sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1.7 and...

stef41

excellent!

stephane

stef41

Hello everyone, a little animation made at the end of the afternoon of a portion of the sun. There's not much going on apart from a few activities around the spot .... I may even have cut the acquisitions a little early, but from 6.30pm onwards, the sun is in my plum tree! :D On the fs60 with its sm...

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Hello everyone, Here are two animations taken on the afternoon of 28 May. Turbulence conditions were much worse than in the morning At the Mak 102/1325 equipped with its D-ERF, tele-extender x2, quark combo chromo, ADC and zwo178mm in binning x2 S20230528-DERF-mak102-telex2-chromo-adc-asi178mm-b2.jp...

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good evening everyone, some late afternoon sunshine on the fs60 with its sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1.7 and zwo178mm around 15h10 UT S20230531-15h11UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7-asi178mm.jpg S20230531-15h12UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7-asi178mm.jpg a small zoom by replacing the x1.7 gp with a x2 ...

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Hello everyone, here is an animation of a prominence from 27 May (the one that was close to the eruption that I missed! :( ) made with the Mak 102/1325 equipped with its D-ERF, tele-extender x2, quark combo chromo and zwo178mm in binning x2 on my GP. S20230527-DERF-mak102-telex2-chromo-asi178mm-b2.j...

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Hello everyone, a bit hot for a month of May in France this sun but still very pleasant :) At the fs60 muni with its sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1.7 and zwo178mm around 09h10 UT S20230528-09h08UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7-asi178mm.jpg S20230528-09h09UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7-asi178mm.jpg and ...

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good evening everyone, sunny afternoon today in France :) At the fs60 with sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1.7 and zwo178mm around 13h40 UT S20230527-13h40UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7-asi178mm.jpg S20230527-13h41UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7-asi178mm.jpg and at the Mak 102/1325 with its D-ERF , tele-...

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good evening to all, a nice present today for my birthday : I saw the sun ! :) Well, there was also a lot of wind and turbulence but let's not sulk! :D At the fs60 with its sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1.7 and zwo178mm around 14:10 UT S20230524-matos1.jpg S20230524-14h10UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gp...

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good morning to all, it's been cloudy here for weeks, so I took advantage of the few sunny spells this afternoon to get the gear out before it was completely overcast, just to get some sun. At the fs60 with its sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1.7 and zwo178mm around 11am UT S20230430-10h59UT-sm4...

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good evening to all, here is my first protuberance animation with this equipment : mak102/1325 with DERF, focal extender x2, quark combo chromo and zwo178mm in binning 2 Quite a lot of turbulence and many cloudy passages but I'm not unhappy with it for a first. 113 movies of 600 images taken between...

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good evening to all, sunshine between the clouds today at my place, so I took out the equipment again even if the turbulence was not very good. At the fs60 with its sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1.7 and zwo178mm around 09h40 UT S20230408-09h38UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7-asi178mm.jpg S20230408-0...

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thanks to you :) I forgot to mention that it was a COMBO chromosphere quark Very nice images, Stephane. Certainly more close up than your FS60 will get, All of these look really good. What make/brand of mount and drive are you using? The wooden tripod is nice. There once was a day wooden tripods cam...

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Hello to all, Second test of the chromo quark behind my old Nexstar 4 (Mak 102/1325) on this April 5th. Since the first test (last August!), I made some modifications: - I removed the arm tube from the Nexstar mount to put rings and a vixen dovetail and install it on the GP .... the tracking is much...

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hello to all, finally a concordance between free time and a clear sky to do some sun watching ! :) At the fs60 with his sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1.7 and zwo178mm around 14:50 UT S20230405-14h52UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7-asi178mm.jpg S20230405-14h53UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7-asi178mm.jpg c...

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good morning to all, a little sun at the end of the day at my place, under a fresh east wind. :) At the fs60 with its sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1.7 and zwo178mm around 15h45 UT S20230301-15h45UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7-asi178mm.jpg S20230301-15h46UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7-asi178mm.jpg cor...

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good morning to all, blue sky between some clouds at my place this afternoon but a little 5°C ... and much less with the gusts of wind from the north-east ! But that didn't stop me from making a little picture of our star. :) At the fs60 with its sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1.7 and zwo178mm ...

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hello to all, a sun made just before the clouds landed for several days over my house. around 11am UT, a veil was already present. S20230221-matos.jpg At the fs60 with its sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1.7 and zwo178mm S20230221-11h06UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7-asi178mm.jpg S20230221-11h07UT-sm...

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hello to all,

some sunshine this sunday at the end of the day (in France)

At the fs60 with its sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1.7 and zwo178mm around 15h50 UT

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cordially
stephane

stef41 · Re: AR3217- AR3220 Flare loop 10-02-2023 wonderful!

wonderful!

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hello to all, it's so nice to spend part of the afternoon outside under (and on) the sun ! :) The prominences are less impressive than in the middle of the week but the disk is really nice to observe .... and well speckled ;) At the fs60 with its sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1.7 and zwo178mm ...

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hello to all, it's so nice to spend part of the afternoon outside under (and on) the sun ! :) The prominences are less impressive than in the middle of the week but the disk is really nice to observe .... and well speckled ;) At the fs60 with its sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1.7 and zwo178mm ...

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hello everyone, second day in a row where I can see the sun! I should celebrate. :) At the fs60 with its sm40 double stack, BF10, glasspath x1.7 and zwo178mm around 3:20 pm UT S20230208-15h21UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7-asi178mm.jpg S20230208-15h22UT-sm40DS-fs60-bf10-gpx1.7-asi178mm.jpg cordially step...

stef41

thanks to you

I see that my fly agaric is very successful!

stéphane

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