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by marktownley » Sun Sep 23, 2018 8:48 pm
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
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by gabrieli » Sun Sep 23, 2018 9:01 pm
Hi, Mark
Your DS50 pulled out some nice details with the new barlow. Seeing must have been good.
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by ffellah » Sun Sep 23, 2018 10:22 pm
It turned out a productive session in the end, Mark ! Well done...
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by marktownley » Sun Sep 23, 2018 10:45 pm
Thanks guys! The seeing wasn't too bad.
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by eroel » Mon Sep 24, 2018 12:10 am
Mark:
Very good session.
Best regards,
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by Carbon60 » Mon Sep 24, 2018 5:37 am
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.
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by Montana » Mon Sep 24, 2018 9:08 am
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!
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by pedro » Mon Sep 24, 2018 1:40 pm
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
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by krakatoa1883 » Mon Sep 24, 2018 2:12 pm
Great calcium images, Mark! many details on the disc and on the limb too
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by MapleRidge » Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:02 am
Hi Derek...
Great captures
We were probably our around the same time when you account for the time zone differences
Brian
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