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excellent! the uneven illumination is from blocking filter irregularities.

I thought it might be fun for someone to practice processing these H alpha file sets that I took today. Here is a dropbox link to the RAW avi files if anyone would like to process them for practice. I would love to see someone blow me away with their skills. Let's see what ya got! https://www.dropbo...

these are blocking filter anomalies. its always the blocking filter. I would strongly advise against any tweaking of the etalon housing or internal optics in the scope. The blocking filter diagonal and glass is adjusted at the factory but it is not designed to be adjusted by the end user. It is held...

What Mark said .

technically close to perfection and just the way I like'em... monochrome with "just the facts, ma'am"

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I’m guessing everyone has seen the absolute abomination that was published as an APOD today on the NASA APOD website. This is yet another in a long line of amateurish fakes with no scientific value that have been put out by that silly website as being the epitome of astrophotography, etc. They are r...

We finished up with an extra 2 donations today for a total of $18,902. We had 160 donations (27 from Solarchat and 133 from Facebook only folks) and an average of $113.50. I am drawing for the prizes now and will announce them on Facebook and then hear. Although we did not make the goal, we did a re...

my wife kicked in $3000…:)

Well, we finished out the fundraiser a little ahort of the goal but thank you Mike Maurer, John R. Nagle and all the incredible people who supported Solar Astronomy and Sunlight in Nature outreach in this years’ Fall fundraiser! www.paypal.me/cbsap We will have our prize drawing this afternoon. Than...

LAST DAY TO MAKE OUR GOAL!! Thanks Ginie Abney Anthony, and Geoffrey Harris! for the very generous donations to the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project /Sunlit Earth! fall fundraiser!! www.paypal.me/cbsap to help us teach more science and nature and maybe win a cool prize! you can donate without a...

Thanks Lisa Frederick Crawford, Tammy Poulnott and William Caldwell for your generous donations to the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project/Sunlit Earth Fall fundraiser one more day to reach our goal and award the prizes! support science education at www.paypal.me/cbsap IMG_3454.jpeg IMG_3415.jpeg

NASA SDO has all the equipment you could ever need already setup and free to use over the internet. Extreme UV isn’t visible from inside the Earth’s atmosphere.

Thanks Buddy Harrell, Sharon Leslie and Melanie Edwards Furr for your generous contributions to our Fall fundraiser!
We are slowly inching our way to the goal and would appreciate your support.
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The annular eclipse is in the books and the total eclipse is coming up on April 8th! www.paypal.me/cbsap to supportnour refustered nonprofit 501c3 We are doing our Fall fundraiser right now and invite you to support the worlds largest solar astronomy nonprofit and educational internet forum. We star...

it was completely overcast here on the coast until about eight minutes before the end of the eclipse. Then I got a 30 to 40 second thinner patch of clouds where I could see the Sun. Thankfully, I was ready with just my unfiltered birdwatching camera to get this one cloudy shot. neither of my two rea...

:seesaw Okay, one donation yesterday and thank you. Let’s see if we can at least double that today. 🙂 The Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project/Sunlit Earth Fall fundraiser is going on through October. We are a real nonprofit 501c3 in Atlanta, GA USA. We are not a gofundme page or any of that sketch...

It is October 9th. The fundraiser goal is 20k US and it ends on October 31st.

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Player One Point Gray Grasshopper

cuteness overload

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