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Carbon60

Many thanks, everyone. Much appreciated.
Back to clouds and rain for the rest of the week, so no more fun in the Sun for a while

Stu.

Carbon60

Wowzer.... G4 geomagnetic storm in progress! There are likely to be some stunning aurora if it continues through the hours of darkness. My magnetometer kicked into life mid-afternoon when a CME resulting from a recent X-class solar flare struck earlier than predicted (according to Spaceweather.com)....

Carbon60

A beautiful day, but awful seeing for the most part for anything up-close. I did manage a close view of AR13615 mid-flare and tried something a bit different to capture the full 'depth' of the event using an HDR approach, with 5 steps captured at different levels of exposure from very dim to normal....

Carbon60

Superb CaK images, Mark, as always.

Enjoy the trip.

Stu.

Carbon60

Many thanks, guys. Much appreciated. Delighted at the honour of SPoD.

Stu.

Carbon60

Stu, I think these are terrific! You’ve caught the fascinating active regions and presented them beautifully for comparison in different lights. I think when we’re in battle with the elements and frustrated with repeated attempts at processing our brains flip and only see the imperfections. Maybe y...

Carbon60

Stu, I think these are terrific! You’ve caught the fascinating active regions and presented them beautifully for comparison in different lights. I think when we’re in battle with the elements and frustrated with repeated attempts at processing our brains flip and only see the imperfections. Maybe y...

Carbon60

Many thanks for your kind comments, everyone.

No frustrations today…. KNOW the weather is bad and there’s no chance of imaging today under the grey, damp skies here.

Stu.

Carbon60

Many thanks for your kind comments, everyone.

No frustrations today…. KNOW the weather is bad and there’s no chance of imaging today under the grey, damp skies here.

Stu.

Carbon60

I set up nice and early this morning awaiting the Sun to appear over the rooftops. After all, the weather forecast was favourable, for a nice change. As it turned out, the clouds ignored the weather expectations and blotted out the Sun for extended periods, only allowing it to peep through occasiona...

Carbon60

I set up nice and early this morning awaiting the Sun to appear over the rooftops. After all, the weather forecast was favourable, for a nice change. As it turned out, the clouds ignored the weather expectations and blotted out the Sun for extended periods, only allowing it to peep through occasiona...

Carbon60

Nice result. At least over-sampling is better than under-sampling.

Stu.

Carbon60

Nice images, Paul. Personally, I’d be concentrating on taking close views with this beauty and use the 80 mm for FDs.

Stu.

Carbon60

Astonishing levels of detail in these FDs, Simon. Good to see you back.

Stu.

Carbon60 · Re: Coronado SolarMax II 60/400 mm. 20.03.2024 Nice images, Alexander. Stu.

Nice images, Alexander.

Stu.

Carbon60

Nice images and great capture, David.

Stu.

Carbon60

There’s no mistaking your unique style, Petr. Beautiful images.
Congratulations on SPoD.

Stu.

Carbon60

Nice images, Dominik,

I prefer the non inverted images over the inverted ones, but that’s just me.
One comment I would make is that you might want to increase the size of the surface disk slightly prior to combining in order to cover up the white line around the limb.

Stu.

Carbon60

Nice images and great scope, Paul.

Stu.

Carbon60 · Re: March 18 2024 Observations. White Light Continuum Thanks, James. Stu.

Thanks, James.

Stu.

Carbon60

Excellent, Eric. Lovely images.

Stu.

Carbon60

Fabulous FDs, Rainer. That prom in the south west is beautiful and you’ve imaged it beautifully

Stu.

Carbon60

Mark, your calcium images are simply superb.

Stu.

Carbon60 · Re: Small mosaic 17/3/24 HA Nice result, Ralph. Lovely image. Stu.

Nice result, Ralph. Lovely image.

Stu.

Carbon60

Beautiful work, Ralph. Lots of lovely details in these and the animation is top shelf…very nice.

Stu.

Carbon60 · Re: Ha Session 18-03-2024 Great images, Martin. Stu.

Great images, Martin.

Stu.

Carbon60

Nice results, Petr.

Stu.

Carbon60

That’s a very nice disk, Stephen.

Stu.

Carbon60 · Re: Sol 17-3-24 Ha Very nice indeed, Steve. Your best yet? Stu.

Very nice indeed, Steve. Your best yet?

Stu.

Carbon60

Lovely images across the spectrum, Arne.

Stu.

Carbon60

Very nice, Rainer. Good to see the cloud magnet

is working well

Stu.

Carbon60 · Re: Active Sun Monday 18 March 2024 Very nice result there, Dave. Stu.

Very nice result there, Dave.

Stu.

Carbon60

Thanks, James. Tomorrow looks promising here. Fingers crossed

.

Stu.

Carbon60 · Re: March 16 2024 Observations Thanks for your report, James. Stu.

Thanks for your report, James.

Stu.

Carbon60

Great images, Brian.

Stu.

Carbon60

Nicely done, Tim.

Stu.

Carbon60

Great results, Arne.

Stu.

Carbon60

Nice FD, Robert.

Stu.

Carbon60 · Re: FD's 16/3/24 Nice results, Rich. Stu.

Nice results, Rich.

Stu.

Carbon60

I missed this post last week. Just catching up…
Another great set of images, Mark. You’re inspiring me to further tinker with my setup to try to get every last drop of detail from it. I need to consider tilt tuning.

Cheers.

Stu.

Carbon60 · Re: Spots from 2/21 - 3/16/2024 Impressive result, Warren. Stu.

Impressive result, Warren.

Stu.

Carbon60

Very nice, indeed, Pedro.

Does the horse still visit to manage the lawn?

Stu.

Carbon60

Super images, Eric, despite the atmospheric crud. Let’s hope the volcano doesn’t actually go pop.

Stu.

Carbon60

Superb, Mark. You’ve certainly nailed CaK imaging with that setup.

Stu.

Carbon60

Nice FDs, David. Good to see you back.

Stu.

Carbon60

Wonderful results, Nic. FYI, I’ve removed the ND filters completely from my Lacerta wedge, whilst at the same time I’ve added an IR filter on its nose. Clearly, this is strictly for imaging only, but the resulting image brightness gives exceptionally fast exposures, of the order of 50-100 micro seco...

Carbon60

Wonderful results, Nic. FYI, I’ve removed the ND filters completely from my Lacerta wedge, whilst at the same time I’ve added an IR filter on its nose. Clearly, this is strictly for imaging only, but the resulting image brightness gives exceptionally fast exposures, of the order of 50-100 micro seco...

Carbon60

Superb animation, Peter and your wife’s sunrise shot is sublime. You live in a beautiful spot there.

Stu.

Carbon60

Looks very nice, Rich. Beautifully uniform.

Stu.

Carbon60

Great animation, Ralph, in clearly quite challenging seeing conditions.

Stu.

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