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Xmas Eve Day Sun and some Scenery

Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2017 5:01 am
by MapleRidge
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!
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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:
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The second covers the disk north of the equator, with AR2692 as the main disk feature:
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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:
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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:
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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

Re: Xmas Eve Day Sun and some Scenery

Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2017 12:59 pm
by ffellah
Brian: it looks like you had a nice session.... very nice images very well presented.

Merry Christmas to you and family !

Franco

Re: Xmas Eve Day Sun and some Scenery

Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2017 7:18 pm
by eroel
Brian:
Super solar shots, though this is the first time I see the nearest star resolved so well. :shock:
Seasons Greetings to you and family.
Best wishes,
Eric.

Re: Xmas Eve Day Sun and some Scenery

Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2017 7:31 pm
by MapleRidge
Franco and Eric...

Thanks for your comments on the images and holiday wishes :bow

Brian

Re: Xmas Eve Day Sun and some Scenery

Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 12:48 am
by rsfoto
Hi Brian,

Nice images and that Panorama made he Homesick when I was living in Germany. I miss the snow in Mexico

:(

Re: Xmas Eve Day Sun and some Scenery

Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 2:30 am
by MapleRidge
Hi Rainer...

Thanks for your comments...always appreciated :bow

My panorama has a lot more snow if I were re-take it in he morning, as we have had a lot of snow through the night and Christmas Day. The winds have picked up and a lot of drifting snow. A lot of Canadian who don't like the snow head south for the winter to escape it...some of my wife's family he in Mexico for the winter.

Brian

Re: Xmas Eve Day Sun and some Scenery

Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 8:28 am
by Carbon60
A fine set of images, Brian, very nicely presented. Beautiful panorama too.

I hope you had a wonderful family Christmas.

Stu.

Re: Xmas Eve Day Sun and some Scenery

Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 10:27 am
by Derek Klepp
Cheers Brian

Re: Xmas Eve Day Sun and some Scenery

Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 1:07 pm
by pedro
Great imaging session Brian, well done

Season's greetings

Re: Xmas Eve Day Sun and some Scenery

Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 4:09 pm
by MapleRidge
Stu, Derek, and Pedro...

Thanks for your feedback and seasons greeting...much appreciated :bow

Brian

Re: Xmas Eve Day Sun and some Scenery

Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 5:13 pm
by Montana
How wonderful to have a white Christmas, I thoroughly enjoyed the panorama and the Sun, I had neither on Christmas day.
:bow :hamster:
Have a relaxing holiday and Happy New Year!
Alexandra

Re: Xmas Eve Day Sun and some Scenery

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 8:43 am
by marktownley
Missed these, a great set Brian and hope you have had an excellent Christmas!

Re: Xmas Eve Day Sun and some Scenery

Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 12:09 am
by MapleRidge
Alexandra and Mark...

Thanks for your feedback and Christmas wishes...very much appreciated :bow

Mark...your Icelandic adventures look great from the aurora pics you are posting. They much be very impressive to show that well with the moonlight.

Alexandra, we have not had a lot of (or any) snow at Christmas in the last 10 years so I am happy to have the snow...just a 'natural' state for nature in my mind. We have had a damn cold week too..-30C a couple of mornings and the daytime high has been in the -20's too. The saving grace has been the relatively calm winds...we'd be in whiteouts with blowing snow and the cold would seem 10x worse in the wind. Joked with some customers today that it was nice to have a warn day for a change...the fact it was still -17C puts it into perspective :lol: The cold weather has brought clear skies but work has not allowed any time to do solar work despite the cold.

Brian

Re: Xmas Eve Day Sun and some Scenery

Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 1:40 pm
by Ibbo
Nice images Brian.
A bit cold for my liking though.

Re: Xmas Eve Day Sun and some Scenery

Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2017 6:36 pm
by MapleRidge
Thanks for your feedback Steve :bow

The temps haven't improved much...-22C or so while imaging this morning.

Brian