I'll be there too!

Chris

All,

Thank you very much for the references and encouragement. My goal right now is to make the images more presentable which means more processing practice.

Of course, the biggest prize is to capture an X-flare.

Thanks Again,

Chris

I went "flare fishing" again on the 26th of December in an attempt to capture a flare after 3hr+ of recording. I'm fairly certain I got one near Active Region 2920 at about 20:30UT so I thought this was worth posting. Is there anywhere I can look to confirm this? https://youtu.be/COoSTMrOY...

Warren,

For me, Ha tuning has always been hard to get consistent results. On this particular day, no matter how far in or out I adjusted the knob nothing really "popped" both visually or while recording. Could I be missing something?

Chris

James,

I don't have the FireCapture files in front of me, but I would say somewhere in the 11am hour, EST. Visually, white light was the most interesting.

Chris

Seeing was horrendous today. I took everyone's advice about moving the Ha around on the ASI183mm's chip to get a more illuminated field. It went a little better this time but, I guess the seeing combined with my processing skills could only yield but so much: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/5170...

Thanks for the suggestions. It hadn't hit me to move the disk around on the sensor for even illumination considering I do that already for CaK

Thanks again
Chris

All, I was afraid some of you would say to try a double stack. I hope to get an extra element in the future, but not until I've reached the limits of what the current setup can do. Below was probably the last decent capture of h-alpha I've had in awhile. This was back in September: https://live.stat...

It looks like CaK and White Light are showing signs of a new spot near the limb at about the 8 o'clock position. The seeing was horrendous here. I've also been having trouble getting decent contrast when dialing in the H-alpha pressure tuner. Any recommendations? Thanks, Chris https://live.staticfli...

Thanks guys.

I just finished putting together a setup that would allow me to finally record the three most common wavelengths simultaneously. Of course, now that everything is in order, the forecast is calling for rain throughout the weekend.

Chris

All,

Something I have yet to find are time lapses of Calcium K line images. I'm sure examples are buried somewhere on here. Is a time lapse of Calcium K even worthwhile?

Thanks,
Chris

My "wildest event" is when I came close to capturing a complete rotation back in 2016: https://youtu.be/eQfDEoXPseg Here, I tried to image the Sun everyday at lunchtime in the Hydrogen-alpha wavelength. The goal was to capture 27 consecutive days of images which is the approximate amount o...

Thank you all. My local astronomy club suggested to me that a "Solar Wavelength Table" would help new members who wish to understand "sunlight". So, I made a PhotoShop Action that sets up the table automatically and then I just drop in the images.

Chris

All, Here's a look at today's solar activity. I'm always struggling to get the Ha to look as "contrasty" as I have seen in other images on here: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51645678571_f1edef468a_k.jpg Solar Activity 31Oct2021 by Chris Cole , on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com...

Beautiful as always Alexandra! I hope to be on here more often now that our star is becoming more photogenic.

Chris

All, One of the things I do for outreach when we want to look at other objects other than the Sun, is observing the planets during the day. It’s one thing to see them visually at night but having good enough optics to see them during the day is something else entirely. Here’s a video I took exactly ...

Nice Image. I'd echo Alexandra's post. It still looks photogenic.

Chris

Brian, Nice images. I have about the same Lunt telescope as you. Down here in the states I'm going through a record cold snap with mostly clear skies. Do you have any tips as far as pressure tuning the telescope in the cold? I noticed it was really tough getting any kind of tuning from my scope last...

Nice going. The CaK prominences are my favorite.

So jealous! Sunday was the first day in awhile where we didn't have clear skies. I would have loved to have seen that beast. Nice work.

Chris

Chris-1 Pedro-30; no contest! Nice montage. I assume your holy grail would be an ISS transit?

Chris

Always a treat to see you're images. However, your sarcastic first statement in this post was wonderful!

Chris

It took me weeks to get something worthwhile to post. I've read a lot on this forum and all that reading and research has paid off. I've quickly learned that seeing has to be decent for CaK images: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4448/37151072884_395721bf9e_b.jpg Calcium K Line Solar First Success by...

So now I have a Lunt CaK wedge. Lunt recommends you to not use it on anything larger than 100mm aperture. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but is using an 80mm scope with an aperture mask overkill?

Chris

Looks great. I tend to be a bit nostalgic sometimes, but I really like that wood Celestron tripod. Don't get me wrong, a Takahashi scope would be great to have someday not to mention all your solar toys!

Chris