(Sunspot!!) AR2734 & Full Disc in HA | March 6th 2019

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(Sunspot!!) AR2734 & Full Disc in HA | March 6th 2019

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Heya,

I haven't seen the sky for over a week with this dreadful weather lately here in Florida, literally just nothing. A cold front just blew in and over night it went from 80F+ and all rain and clouds, to dropping in the 30's F and 50~60's F during the day, along with it came a clear blue sky, no clouds at all, all day, and good transparency. The seeing was not as good, but, it was worth wrestling through it a bit. The seeing was decent from 9am to 10am, but it fell apart after that so I didn't get enough time to get good data on the one fairly bright prominence on the limb and could only do a single wavelength today as the seeing just didn't allow for anything else after 10am or so. Anyhow, we have a new sunspot! AR2734 received designation today and it went from a wee active region to showing a nice dipole with visible umbra and a little plage area between the poles and some tiny little filaments whirling around the field. It's so tiny still! On a full disc you could almost not see it without paying close attention. But, at larger scale, it comes to life nicely.

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Re: (Sunspot!!) AR2734 & Full Disc in HA | March 6th 2019

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Beautiful images Marty. Glad to see the new system working so well. Now, if we ever get some good weather we can really see what that system can do!

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Marty:
Super session and a beautiful new setup.
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Re: (Sunspot!!) AR2734 & Full Disc in HA | March 6th 2019

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Nice set of images there Marty!


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Re: (Sunspot!!) AR2734 & Full Disc in HA | March 6th 2019

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Loveley images and setup Marty.


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Re: (Sunspot!!) AR2734 & Full Disc in HA | March 6th 2019

Post by Montana »

These are cracking Marty :hamster: :bow

Not much calcium K recently, is there any reason for that?

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Re: (Sunspot!!) AR2734 & Full Disc in HA | March 6th 2019

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Excellent images, Marty. All great, the first one is my favorite. 2734 is tiny but you succeeded in capturing it in great detail.

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Re: (Sunspot!!) AR2734 & Full Disc in HA | March 6th 2019

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Thank you all, :bow
Montana wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2019 10:28 am Not much calcium K recently, is there any reason for that?
I unfortunately don't have a CaK filter right now. I borrowed some in the past, but it's time to get my own. It's looking like I'll eventually get a Lunt Cak B1200 module and go from there. My hopes are to eventually double stack a pair.

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Re: (Sunspot!!) AR2734 & Full Disc in HA | March 6th 2019

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Súper images!!!!!


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Re: (Sunspot!!) AR2734 & Full Disc in HA | March 6th 2019

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Very nice, Marty. Nice to see some activity.

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Re: (Sunspot!!) AR2734 & Full Disc in HA | March 6th 2019

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An excellent session Marty...great detail with the Quark setup :bow

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