Solar Discs & Features | HA, CaK, Gband | Feb 23rd 2020

[MalVeauX]

Heya,

Woke up to a blue sky so figured I'd see what our sleepy start was doing. Not much going on. A filament, a prominence, nothing grand. So I did some full discs in HA, CaK & Gband to show the upper & lower chromosphere and photosphere. Seeing allowed a brief look at the chromosphere at a finer scale before the clouds rolled in.

Colored:









B&W:









Seeing Data (poor!):

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Equipment:

120mm F10 Masked Frac (CR150HD)
ED80 Frac
Solarmax 60 II Etalon + PST Etalon (HA)
Lunt B1200 CaK (CaK)
Edmund Optics 430nm + Baader 10 stop ND filter in 2" Skybender with 2" Baader Blue CCD-IR Block Filter (Gband)
ASI183MM for full discs
ASI290MM for partials

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Very best,

[DeepSolar64]

Excellent images Marty!!

[eroel]

Marty:
A very nice session.
Best regards,
Eric.

[ffellah]

Great closeups, Marty

Franco

[Montana]

These are lovely Marty, I especially liked the CaK close up when I opened the full size image, very nice work indeed

Alexandra

[marktownley]

A good run of images Marty

[MAURITS]

Excellent Marty.