That's useful to know Bob.

The foam gasket is a good idea Ken.

More detail - given solar cycle 24 peaked in the northern hemisphere in november 2011 and southern hemisphere peaked in february 2014, it would be reasonable to assume solar cycle 25 would start in the northern hemisphere first, so, this is the region you would look first, and, indeed is where we ha...

No, sorry, equatorial based as opposed to higher latitudes. Same polarity as cycle 24 too. Look latitudes 40 degrees for the start of cycle 25 spots.

These are great shots Raf! Congrats on your first images of the year. The first shot with the G Band filter is a killer!

Love the pictures! The video is even better!

Nice capture David! Glad you're getting some sun, i'm hoping for some at the weekend, see how far it is off the tops of the trees on my southern horizon...

Mmmm more confused than ever now, thanks :) I just need more frames per second than the Grasshopper that has 25fps. However I don't fancy more cost of a tilter and then more fiddling around. I was going to use the 2x and 3x Barlow with the Lunt CaK module as the 3x worked brillant with the white li...

Hi George, thanks and yes, you are right. I was not precise enough: it is indeed a Baader K-line filter. Yes, I separated the two filters into two different filter cells. The reason was that I had to much reflections going on when the filter was properly stacked in the original filter cel. So now t...

Hi Alexandra. Like Bart says it is down to the f-ratio you are working at. F10ish you're looking at the ASI290M, f20ish your PGR will work nice, for F30+ then a 174 chipped camera is the way forward.

That is a great shot Eric!

Great capture of the spot! The software looks great, I look forward to giving it a try later in the year when i'm not trying to image in gaps in tree branches.

Great shots David, glad you're back in business!

Lovely!

That looks chilly Brian! Great sun shots though. Picked up your email, been away all weekend visiting friends,will reply this evening when have the calendar infront of me...

That's brilliant Brian! I got up a few times in the night but was cloudy throughout for me, nice to see your image.

Brilliant shots Pedro!

Easily visible in the blue image Bart! Nice!

Congrats on the SPoD Phil!

That's a super set of images Eric!

It works well Bart. You can just about make out the 'double limb' on the full size image. With the sun high in a deep blue sky you will get proms and disk in one shot easily.

Good luck indeed! Cloud forecast for me. I would take up nephology but they're just boring, grey and flat clouds that we get here. I will be awake not long after 4am so I will keep my eye out incase of breaks...

Nice disks Pedro. Back to the 140 so soon?

Nice capture Robert, I see your logic. The sun is still low in the sky though. I have trees and roof tops where I am, so reckon i've a good month before my horizon is clear.

Nice capture Bart. I'm sure I remember Apollo saying a similar thing about the Beloptik with CaK.

Interesting!