Thanks to a very small group of incredibly generous, longtime supporters of the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project/Sunlit Earth, WE MET OUR FUNDRAISING GOAL!!! there is one more day left in the fundraiser so if you would like to participate, I will be sending everything raised over the goal to ou...

Thanks Katherine Jares for your donation to the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project/Sunlit Earth! Spring Fundraiser! we are at $13,050 of the $15,000 goal!! This is the last weekend of our drive and we would really appreciate your generous, tax deductible contribution at www.paypal.me/cbsap Thank ...

Thanks so much to all of our wonderful, but tiny group of donors so far! It is May 23rd, the fundraising goal is $15k by next Wednesday, May 31st! We are just over $12k now. WE CAN DO IT! Those of you who watch these posts go by and just get irritated or act like they don’t exist and never donate to...

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it would be great if a couple dozen more members could send something to the fundraiser so I can quit pestering everyone.

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That’s about as good as it gets right there, James.

www.paypal.me/cbsap to support our Spring fundraiser!

Thank you 14 forum members for your donations.

turns out since it’s mothers day, I cant host it. Alexandra is running this one.

Thank you to the 7 solarchat members who have donated to keep the forum going.
It would be great if we could get a big turnout in the fundraiser from forum members.

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We are EXTRAORDINARILY PROUD! to announce the recipient of this years sponsorship from our Spring fundraiser. (to help finance this incredible opportunity and others, please go to https://www.PayPal.me/cbsap to support our Spring fundraiser) Claudio Stabile is a very impressive young man in Pennsylv...

thank you to seven forum members who have donated so far.
This is our spring fundraiser and I would be very grateful if you could send a generous amount to www.PayPal.me/CBSAP to help us reach our goal of $15,000 by the end of May.

Thank you Tracey Armstrong Collins, Ralph Reda, Susan Griffith Berthelot, and Keith Rainey for your very generous donation to the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project/Sunlit Earth! Spring fundraiser!! paypal.me/cbsap to donate. Our goal is $15,000 by May 31st to fund the teaching of the science and...

Welcome to the spring 2023 fundraiser for the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project/Sunlit Earth! We are the nonprofit that pays for and maintains this solar astronomy internet form. We are a US federal and state of Georgia registered nonprofit 501(c)(3) that gathers resources including equipment an...

a beautiful image for sure

these are fantastic Gus. I had to share these on our Facebook page as well. Nice work.

nice and clear! good post.

definitely agree . of course it costs ten times as
much and performs accordingly.

The Player One camera is 1608 pixels across and the PGR is 2768 pixels at max resolution. The P1A has some banding issues and it’s a lot smaller image so less processing wiggle room. The PGR was $3500 though and the Player One was $399 :) i’ve been using the PGR for almost 10 years and I’m very fami...

This next batch was from the same time using the Player One Astronomy Apollo M-Max at 125 fps on another 2013 iMac using Firecapture. Same scopes as above. P1A White Light full disk monochrome.jpg P1A White Light full disk colored.jpg P1A White Light closeup sunspot.jpg P1A White Light closeup monoc...

These first ones were all caught at 7 fps using a 6MP PGR Grasshopper Express/ASTRO-PHYSICS STARFIRE 130MM, Baadar Wedge, Lunt B1800 CaK module, and an externally double stacked Lunt LS100mm. All captured and processed on a 2013 iMac using ASTRO IIDC/Photoshop/Topaz. PGR White Light Full Disk 2.jpg ...

This is the RAW video from the Player One Apollo M Max camera on the externally double stacked Lunt LS100 of a flaring event on March 19th around 1630 UTC.

In order to streamline things, I also deactivated anyone who hasn’t logged in since 2015-1-1. We found 27 active and known spammer accounts on the forum that were also deleted. If any of these inactive accounts were you, I can reactivate you if you like before 2024-1-1 after which you will be perman...

I'd go with #1, also.

You may see this page when you are signing on for a while. This is part of Cloudflare which is a service that redirects the website back and forth a couple times to prevent bots from getting the actual IP of our forum. It has been 100% effective so far. This page comes from us still being in the &qu...

sorry everyone. I didnt notice the date on these posts. Something about Fridays messing about sent these to me as new…lol