Sunday Sunshine - 23rd september

[marktownley]

Had a nice sunday today - Stu and his wife dropped in this morning for a brew and natter then we went out for a spot of lunch. I thought the weather was grotty for the day but then late in the afternoon things just cleared up giving me the first chance for some solar since early august. Starting off with the DS50 I went for the obligatory full disk:

ha-full-disk-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

ha-full-disk-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Then I popped in a 2x cemax barlow I picked up secondhand, quite pleased with it, definitely better than the 2x skywatcher i've been using. Some nice little proms today.

ne-prom-2-ha-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

ne-prom-2-ha-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

northern-prom-ha-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

northern-prom-ha-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

south-pole-ha-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

south-pole-ha-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

I switched scopes for the full disk in CaK with the 40mm..

cak-full-disk-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

cak-full-disk-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

I was pleasantly surprised at the seeing, so in a fit of madness decided to try some CaK with the 100mm Tal refractor, using the ssm plugin and tens of captures later I managed one that came out ok.

cak-mid-disk-100mm-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

cak-mid-disk-100mm-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Nice to get some sun in for a change!

Mark

[gabrieli]

Hi, Mark

Your DS50 pulled out some nice details with the new barlow. Seeing must have been good.

Lou

[ffellah]

It turned out a productive session in the end, Mark ! Well done...

Franco

[marktownley]

Thanks guys! The seeing wasn't too bad.

[eroel]

Mark:
Very good session.
Best regards,
Eric.

[Carbon60]

It was great catching up at lunchtime, Mark, for a good natter.

A very fine set of images. Glad you managed a solar session later in the afternoon.

By the time I got home and the clouds finally broke, the Sun was barely above the rooftops.

Stu.

[Montana]

These are fantastic Mark, I really do like the CaK close up and the CaK proms

We had a lovely sunny Sunday but the hubby wanted a day trip out, hopefully next weekend the Sun will be out. I haven't done any solar for ages and ages!
Alexandra

[pedro]

Great session Mark, nice images (Ha and Ca-K)

Yesterday I was laky and I did not image the sun, shame on me. The sky was crystal clear

I received the SW SolarQuest mount. I will try it soon

[krakatoa1883]

Great calcium images, Mark! many details on the disc and on the limb too

[Derek Klepp]

Good session Mark.

[MapleRidge]

Hi Derek...

Great captures

We were probably our around the same time when you account for the time zone differences

Brian