Ha Overview 12th December

[marktownley]

Today was a good day for weather, the day dawned wet but the sky was clear blue behind the passing front, by 1pm when the sun came out of the trees I was setup ready to observe. The sun is quieter of late, but there is still activity and the suns southern hemisphere continues to be most active. I started off with the full disk with my usual setup - a 50mm lunt etalon on my 60mm f6 scope, double stacked with a Quark, Baader 0.7x solar telecompressor and a FLIR grasshopper 3 91S6M camera.

Ha-FD-DS-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Ha-FD-DS-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Taking out the solar telecompressor and swapping the camera for the IMX174 Grasshopper gives a different scale. Ar12790 is getting ever closer to the limb.
departing-ar-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

departing-ar-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

On the opposite side a yet as undesignated active region is rounding the limb.

new-ar-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

new-ar-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

There was a lovely prom on view...

prom-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

prom-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

I did get the scope out for CaK, but the sun was only 10 degrees altitude, and the seeing was on the limit for this setup, I know with 50mm I can get more detail than this when the conditions allow, so that in mind I skipped and stuck with Ha. Was pleased with this haul, and also pleased I can now observe all year round weather permitting. It was nice being out in the garden this afternoon, spotted the first shoots from the snow drops were coming through the soil.

Hope you're having a good weekend.

Mark

[dhkaiser]

Nice Mark, well done with a 50mm.

[rsfoto]

Hi Mark,

Excellent images

[Astrophil]

Very nice images, Mark. You sure can get a lot from 50mm. High quality and a pleasure to view. The proms and limb came through well and realistic.
I’d say that today’s haul are all winners!

Phil

[yltansg]

Dear Mark,

I enjoyed the wonderful details on the full disk in full resolution on Flickr. Details such as the vertical filament nearer to the eastern limb and the proms at 1 O'clock position. Your Lunt 50mm etalon+Quark HA setup is a winner!!

Alfred

[MapleRidge]

An excellent series of images Mark...well done

Brian

[ffellah]

A very nice set, Mark.

Franco

[DeepSolar64]

Very nice imagery Mark. Thanks for the view. I had clouds today.

[marktownley]

Thanks everyone for your kind comments. Cloud and rain returns here today, so no sun for me...

[Equator6]

Beautiful images Mark. Can we see any spicule in the full resolution photo in flickr?

Joseph

[JohnW]

Nice images Mark esp. with 50 mm. Cheers, John W.

[Carbon60]

Looks like you had a good session, Mark. Really nice images, even though there's less to see again at the moment. That setup works really well.

No Sun for me here, unfortunately.

Stu.

[Martin_S]

Great work Mark, thanks for sharing your images.

Martin

[Montana]

Wow!! the detail you get from your 50mm is amazing

Considering I am only 90 miles north from you we had rain, then drizzle all day now back to proper rain today

Alexandra

[John]

Super images, especially with such a low sun.

John

[marktownley]

Thanks ALexandra, Thanks John. Been raining solid here all day so far, a day for not doing much me thinks!

[EGRAY_OBSERVATORY]

As you say Mark, a quite Sun than of late, but you have shown some fine-detail - thanks vm
Lucky you had some clear-sky...

Terry

[solardave]

Nice images mark no chance of sunshine in Scotland weather has been terrible glad you got a break

[pedro]

Great images Mark, still raining here...

[eroel]

Mark, a very nice session with the 50mm Lunt etalon setup.
Best regards,
Eric.

[marktownley]

Thanks everyone!