The Sun - 5th July 2020

[David_The_Bears_Fan]

A bit of sunshine today but also very windy. Almost decided not to go out with the wind being so strong but in the end temptation won out! With the winds being what they were I was limited to the Bresser scope but still managed to grab some full disk white light and Ca-K data. Also managed to grab my first couple of images with the Quark.

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This prom in Ca-K was HUGE, the image doesn't even begin to do it justice, shame I could not have imaged it with the big scope.

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Then my first images using the Quark. I had the aperture stopped down to 50mm to help get the F ratio up, that combined with the ES 3x barlow gives me around F/30ish.

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And finally the prom, a little bit of a damp squib compared to what I saw in Ca-K but then I am still trying to find the best settings for the Quark.

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[rsfoto]

Hi,

Excellent set of images. Great catch of that pore in the white light image.

[eroel]

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

[ffellah]

A very nice series, David. You caught those proms very well and congratulations on your new Quark.

Franco

[dhkaiser]

Great images David.

[JochenM]

Nice results, David.

Looks to me like you've got that Quark up and running just fine.

[yltansg]

Hi David,

Congrats on your first Light with new Quark.

I can see proms on the CAK FD!!

Alfred

[DeepSolar64]

Excellent images! I love the CaK ones.

[Carbon60]

You had a good session, Dave. Nice images and a good first trial of your new Quark.

Stu.

[marktownley]

Good set of images DAvid, the Quark looks to be working well.

[David_The_Bears_Fan]

Thanks All

I had a play with collimating the focuser on the Bresser while the weather was poor, think it has helped a bit. Batteries in my laser collimator were on the way out at the time, armed with some fresh ones I will have another go now. Hopefully at some point the wind will die down enough for me to plug the Quark into the Evostar for some imaging