Saturdays Full Disk & Prom Lift Off
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Saturdays Full Disk & Prom Lift Off
My observation window has narrowed to just half an hour now as we approach the winter solstice, however a heavily frosted morning with cloud free blue skies was crying out to me to capture the moment. I started off with a quick visual to get a flavour of what was happening on our star today and then rapidly dived into some imaging to record what I could. Despite the poor seeing through the eyepeice i'm glad to see that avistack and other software have managed to extract all the best bits from my avis.
First off the full disk: taken with the DS40 @ f20 with DMk31, 6 pane mosaic in IMerge.
full disk by Mark Townley, on Flickr
It was only after I had shot the avis for this and I returned to some visual to end my session that I saw the prom at 8 o'clock position was lifting off. Sadly by this time the sun was back amongst the trees and was too late for another image. However I have revisited the relevant pane and with quite a bit of stretching have managed to pull out this rapidly expanding prom as well as I can. This is presented with an inverted disk just for a bit of variety!
eruptive prom by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Hope you like and is sunny where you are!
Mark
First off the full disk: taken with the DS40 @ f20 with DMk31, 6 pane mosaic in IMerge.
full disk by Mark Townley, on Flickr
It was only after I had shot the avis for this and I returned to some visual to end my session that I saw the prom at 8 o'clock position was lifting off. Sadly by this time the sun was back amongst the trees and was too late for another image. However I have revisited the relevant pane and with quite a bit of stretching have managed to pull out this rapidly expanding prom as well as I can. This is presented with an inverted disk just for a bit of variety!
eruptive prom by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Hope you like and is sunny where you are!
Mark
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these are so nice, I don't think I need to open my observatory today ! Wow - excellent mosaic.
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Thanks Ken, appreciated!
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A magnificent couple of pictures Mark, wonderful detail, I'm really glad you saw the sun today even if it were for 30 minutes. I'll post my solar effort in a minute.
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Thanks Alexandra! The sun is barely above my fence line as was really surprised as much detail came out as did...
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Hi Mark
wonderful you managed to see and record the sun. Great shots. We here are under snow. It'll take some time until we see the sun again :whistle:
wonderful you managed to see and record the sun. Great shots. We here are under snow. It'll take some time until we see the sun again :whistle:
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Thanks Walter! I've broken up for the Christmas holidays now, so every day for the next couple of weeks, if it's clear at 10.15am I can get a view of el-sol in... I must keep my fingers crossed for clear skies!
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Hi Mark
I'm jealous. My boss want's me to work until 24th late afternoon. That's brutal, isn't it?
I'm jealous. My boss want's me to work until 24th late afternoon. That's brutal, isn't it?
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My boss want's me to work until 24th late afternoon. That's brutal, isn't it?
Very brutal!
Very brutal!
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Mark, Great pics.I also had a small window to view today,I got to see a large lift off
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Thanks Bill! I'm hoping my solar window is open again tomorrow morning...
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I was able to image the sun today as well. The image below is a two frame mosaic that shows the prom lift off. Pretty neat. Note, this image is a combination of one set of gain/exposures/gamma for most of the data and a second one for the lift off only. Some non-uniformity due to the combination of lots of data.
The second image is a mosaic of two Barlowed frames. I was going to get more data here but the disk was fairly uninteresting. I'll put more frames together later when things get more interesting.
Enjoy,
Teri
The second image is a mosaic of two Barlowed frames. I was going to get more data here but the disk was fairly uninteresting. I'll put more frames together later when things get more interesting.
Enjoy,
Teri
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Very nice pics Teri! The last one reminds me of the view I had at the eyepeice just as I had to pack up...
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Very nice Mark! I got a quick shot this morning of the prom, and it was really curdled in appearance. In horrible seeing:
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Thanks Chris, that's a nice capture. Sunday looks like it's going to be a cloud out for me, hope you have better luck!
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Super shots Mark!!!! Love that full disk!
Walter--I've worked xmas eve every year for the last 38 years---I feel your pain!
Jim
Walter--I've worked xmas eve every year for the last 38 years---I feel your pain!
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Hi Jim
thank you very much. I have only 7 more years to go. I'll survive that, I'm pretty sure
thank you very much. I have only 7 more years to go. I'll survive that, I'm pretty sure
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Hi Mark
The picture of the disk(mosaic)looks like very....NICE....
the weather here in Athens does not allow either observation or taking photos...
The picture of the disk(mosaic)looks like very....NICE....
the weather here in Athens does not allow either observation or taking photos...
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wow!
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