SunSpots 2718 & 2719, Convection Cells, Prominences, Disc Mosaic | Aug 18th 2018

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SunSpots 2718 & 2719, Convection Cells, Prominences, Disc Mosaic | Aug 18th 2018

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Hey all,

Woke up to a mostly clear sky, but the seeing was not great, so I had to keep the scale down. But that's ok, I still managed some decent data. I had to grab a lot of frames to even get a few to stack in the poor seeing. All of these were done with maximum gamma, 5ms time and only enough gain to get to around 80% histogram fill. I grabbed around 6000 frames on each feature to try and get somewhere around 31 to 101 to stack that are decent. I used the 152mm F8 refractor with a 0.5x focal reducer and the Quark for most of these. The convection cells were at full scale with the same refractor and a 3x barlow with a near UV filter. The ST80, masked to 60mm, with the Quark was used to do a mosaic of the disc.

Celestron 152mm F8 refractor + Quark + 0.5x Focal Reducer + ASI174MM (all HA)
Celestron 152mm F8 refractor + 370~395nm pass filter + 3x barlow + ASI174MM (convection cells)
Orion ST80 80mm F5 refractor (masked to 60mm) + Quark + ASI174MM (HA disc mosaic)
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Convection Cells:

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Hydrogen Alpha with the 152mm F8 refractor & 0.5x focal reducer:

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New sunspot, 2719, really interesting on the limb with some flaring:

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Disc mosaic:

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White light disc for comparison (low resolution):

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Re: SunSpots 2718 & 2719, Convection Cells, Prominences, Disc Mosaic | Aug 18th 2018

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Hi Marty,

Great images. Is 2719 official already ? I just opened Spaceweather.com and there it is not listed ...


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Re: SunSpots 2718 & 2719, Convection Cells, Prominences, Disc Mosaic | Aug 18th 2018

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Probably not official; I haven't seen anything truly designate it yet. I may have jumped the gun, so to speak. But it has a visible umbra, unlike 2718 which has decayed already. This new AR is still active, flaring a bit, hopefully it will be designated, I don't think it's a previous AR nor relative to the AR2718, so hopefully it will receive designation!

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Re: SunSpots 2718 & 2719, Convection Cells, Prominences, Disc Mosaic | Aug 18th 2018

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A nice crop of images, Marty.

Stu.


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Re: SunSpots 2718 & 2719, Convection Cells, Prominences, Disc Mosaic | Aug 18th 2018

Post by Montana »

It is certainly 2719 now :) great images! I love the granulation :bow

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Re: SunSpots 2718 & 2719, Convection Cells, Prominences, Disc Mosaic | Aug 18th 2018

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MalVeauX wrote: Mon Aug 20, 2018 2:31 am Probably not official; I haven't seen anything truly designate it yet. I may have jumped the gun, so to speak. But it has a visible umbra, unlike 2718 which has decayed already. This new AR is still active, flaring a bit, hopefully it will be designated, I don't think it's a previous AR nor relative to the AR2718, so hopefully it will receive designation!

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Hi MArty,

Congratulations. Sunspot 2719 is alive. Just checked Spaceweather.com :lol:

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Re: SunSpots 2718 & 2719, Convection Cells, Prominences, Disc Mosaic | Aug 18th 2018

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Woo! Official! And it has several umbra, unlike 2718 did, this is a more interesting spot so far.

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