Here's a rough and ready view of the CaK proms on the FD...

CaK Proms by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Bit of scatter and ghosting, nothing an intrepid tinkerer can't deal with

DeepSolar64 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:57 am What make of filter are you tinkering with?

These look good. I always enjoy your CaK work.

James

Thanks James, CaK PST filters.

Mark, Do early. The seeing will be better then anyway. You could go on the boat and jump off for a cooldown! As soon as the sun has cleared the rooftops I will be imaging JAmes, and, are actually nipping up to the boat later on this afternoon for an hour to take some bits and pieces up. Definitely ...

Hi All. We have our 'heatwave' here in the UK at the moment (read it's summer!), and while we have temperatures in the low 30s and cloudless skies all day and night it does mean that there are only really a couple of hours after sunrise for solar before the seeing collapses. I've been making the mos...

Good record Stu! There were sightings of aurora from the north wales coast from this.

Very nice!

Montana wrote: ↑Wed Aug 10, 2022 6:29 am Very interesting!! the third link shows that h-beta is very similar to the wings of h-alpha (the offband image in h-alpha that they show). So I reckon it's height is between halpha and photosphere.

Yup, sounds right to me.

You got a lovely set of images here Eric!

Thats an outstanding image ALex!

Hi Dave, welcome to the forum, that;s a great opening image. Regards focusing, depending on when you are observing (first thing in the morning is by far the best) and given you are observing at 180mm aperture you're issue may well be poor seeing conditions. Best advice from me would be to use either...

Lovely shots and a great way to spend your vacation!

These look excellent as always thanks Arne!

Good catchups there Sergio!

Came out well Steve, thanks!

My bad terminology, apologies John!

Thanks James, clear here all week, but with the caveat of another heat wave so only really possible to observe for a couple of hours in the mornings.

THanks Andrew

Great result!

Interesting, thanks Douglas. I wish they would fix them all.

Very cool to see the build Paul!

Nice prom shots!

These came out really well James!

These look nice Warren

Very nice image!

Nice captures there Minh!