Xmas Eve Day Sun and some Scenery
Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2017 5:01 am
Hi everyone...
We finally managed to have a clear day today and a day off work too...so I took advantage of the opportunity to do some imagign before heading to my parents for the first go at Christmas festivities.
Seeing was reasonably good with the -8C that was offered, but with the time limits I limited to working with the LS80T/B1200Ha solar scope, double stacked with the LS75FHa front mount etalon. The first image is the full disk composite of separate disk and limb exposures. It was nice to see an upswing in activity! I added a 3x barlow ahead of the camera to capture some higher resolution frames of the disk and limb features. I made mosaics across the disk showing the features, and crated a composite of thse images in monochrome, inverted, and colorized palettes. The first spans the area just south of the solar equator: The second covers the disk north of the equator, with AR2692 as the main disk feature: This post covers the session form today. We have had a lot of cloud and snow in the past couple of weeks so I made a panorama around the observatory when I was finished imaging: With all the cloud lately there have been few opportunities to see any stars...but our neighbors solved that problem by lighting their Christmas star which is mounted atop their silo: Questions and comments are always welcome.
Seasons Greetings and best wishes from my family and I to everyone here for a Merry Christmas.
Take care,
Brian
We finally managed to have a clear day today and a day off work too...so I took advantage of the opportunity to do some imagign before heading to my parents for the first go at Christmas festivities.
Seeing was reasonably good with the -8C that was offered, but with the time limits I limited to working with the LS80T/B1200Ha solar scope, double stacked with the LS75FHa front mount etalon. The first image is the full disk composite of separate disk and limb exposures. It was nice to see an upswing in activity! I added a 3x barlow ahead of the camera to capture some higher resolution frames of the disk and limb features. I made mosaics across the disk showing the features, and crated a composite of thse images in monochrome, inverted, and colorized palettes. The first spans the area just south of the solar equator: The second covers the disk north of the equator, with AR2692 as the main disk feature: This post covers the session form today. We have had a lot of cloud and snow in the past couple of weeks so I made a panorama around the observatory when I was finished imaging: With all the cloud lately there have been few opportunities to see any stars...but our neighbors solved that problem by lighting their Christmas star which is mounted atop their silo: Questions and comments are always welcome.
Seasons Greetings and best wishes from my family and I to everyone here for a Merry Christmas.
Take care,
Brian