Heya,
Wonderful clear skies this morning, but dreadful, truly dreadful seeing. I couldn't manage anything at large scale so I just stuck to smaller scales today. Very few prominences worth noting, a single grouping that is fairly big and interesting on the limb. The two active regions are still present and are easy to spot in several wavelengths, so white light has something to look at which is nice. No sunspots. Looking forward to cycle 25 as it may be slowly on its way which is exciting based on an active region that showed up the other day and decayed quickly in a region we typically don't see activity in during this cycle's minimum. Grabbed data in 656.28nm with a Quark and a masked ST80 operating at 60mm F6.67 and a focal-reduced (0.5x) 152mm F8 refractor (to drop scale, couldn't image at large scale). Grabbed data in 393nm with the ST80 for a quick full disc and the larger scale with the 152mm F8 refractor with a Skybender. The HA full disc is a mosaic made with the ST80 and Quark.
Mosaic Disc:
Active Regions:
393nm:
Very best,
Active Regions & Prominence | 656.28nm & 393nm | Aug 6th 2018
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Re: Active Regions & Prominence | 656.28nm & 393nm | Aug 6th 2018
Looking good Marty!
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Re: Active Regions & Prominence | 656.28nm & 393nm | Aug 6th 2018
A nice crop of images in difficult conditions, Marty.
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H-alpha, WL and Ca II K imaging kit for various image scales.
Fluxgate Magnetometers (1s and 150s Cadence).
Radio meteor detector.
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Fluxgate Magnetometers (1s and 150s Cadence).
Radio meteor detector.
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Re: Active Regions & Prominence | 656.28nm & 393nm | Aug 6th 2018
Still an amazing set with plenty of good detail despite the conditions
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Re: Active Regions & Prominence | 656.28nm & 393nm | Aug 6th 2018
All great, Marty, but I particularly like the CaK results
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