So, I've not seen the sun since May 27th. It's been storming daily and clouded over forever it feels like. Finally got a morning with no clouds for a little while. Now it's cloudy, but at least this morning gave me a window. And of course, it's a near void disc today. Barely any surface features other than the remnants of AR2661, a single large filament and a little plage near the sunspot. There's only a single fairly good sized prominence group, and its small compared to what was going on a few days ago. Very quiet disc. Figures! The clouds kept me away from all those big groups over the past 4 weeks that I've missed in the storms. Alas. But the beauty of high resolution is that there's always something some where to look at that is interesting!
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Coronado PST (400mm F10)
ASI174MM + ASI's low profile 1.25" nose (achieves focus just fine without anything else)
Celestron Omni XLT 120 (1000mm F8.3)
80mm Extensions x 2
Baader UV/IR Cutter (ERF)
Quark Chromosphere
ASI174MM
Detailed imaged at 500 frames, best 51 frames stacked.
Processed with IMPPG, then Registax6, then Photoshop CS5.1
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The quiet disc:
But, the high res details:
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The weather held all day, so I setup the PST with the kids (3, 6 and 6) and the girls, and played on playground and took peaks at the disc:
Very best,
