For the 3rd day in a row (must be a record!) the day dawned sunny and clear, and I was keen to observe. Starting at around 9am with the 120mm scope at f28 for Ha, and again found myself fighting the seeing which was deteriorating by the minute. First off our departing active region and a bit of aggressive post processing to try and claw something back.
ar12804-ha-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar12804-ha-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
I did a quick scoot around the limb for the proms as the disk itself was pretty blank.
prom-4 by Mark Townley, on Flickr
prom-3 by Mark Townley, on Flickr
prom-1 by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Switching down to the 50mm double stack setup was giving better outcomes in the turbulent atmosphere.
Ha-FD-DS50-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Ha-FD-DS50-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
And a look round at the areas of activity:
filaprom-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
filaprom-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar12805-ha-DS50-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar12805-ha-DS50-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar12804-HA-DS50-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar12804-HA-DS50-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
An hour or two later and after a bit of lunch and the sun out of the trees and I decided to have a look in Cak, using the 40mm scope. First off the full disk and the good sky transparency was ideal for CaK proms.
CaK-FD-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
CaK-FD-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
And a look around the areas of interest, apologies for the bunnies!
efr-cak-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
efr-cak-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar12805-cak-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar12805-cak-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar12804-cak-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar12804-cak-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
All in all a nice 3 days spent in the garden in the sunshine, definitely better than being at work and it being foggy like it was today!
Hope you like.
Mark
Sunday Sunshine - 28th February
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Re: Sunday Sunshine - 28th February
a nice harvest there mark
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Re: Sunday Sunshine - 28th February
An excellent haul of images, Mark.
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Re: Sunday Sunshine - 28th February
A nice session in spite of the seeing. Your 50mm rocks, the FDs came out really well.
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Re: Sunday Sunshine - 28th February
You really are a master the top image is like a beautiful fine pencil drawing, wonderful detail
I hope this spring will be like the last one
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I hope this spring will be like the last one
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Superb series of images Mark...very well done
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Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/185395281@N08/albums
10'x15 Roll-off Roof Observatory
Takahashi EM400 Mount carrying:
C14 + Lunt 80ED
Deep Sky Work - ASI294MM Pro+EFW 7x36/Canon 60D (Ha mod), ONAG
Planetary Work - SBIG CFW10, ASI462MM
2.2m Diameter Dome
iOptron CEM70G Mount carrying:
Orion EON 130ED, f7 OTA for Day & Night Use
Ha Setup: Lunt LS80PT/LS75FHa/B1200Ha + Home Brew Lunt Double Stack/B1800Ha on the Orion OTA + Daystar Quantum
WL, G-Band & CaK Setup: Lunt Wedge & Lunt B1800CaK, Baader K-Line and Altair 2nm G-Band filter
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