Monday Sun-day Fun Day... 25th May '20

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Monday Sun-day Fun Day... 25th May '20

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A beautiful blue sky start to the day and the Sun is putting on a good show (considering it's solar minimum). No sunspots, of course, but the active region still looks impressive, given that it's on the decline and there's an excellent large pyramid type prom that I just had to image and animate.

Started with the RCT on the AR, but the conditions were not really optimal, so I dropped to the 150/DS Lunt 35 mod for a further look at the same region and close views of the prom. I finished up with a calcium K quadrant and SS Ha full disk.

Apologies if the animation takes some time to load.

Thanks for looking.

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250mm RCT view of the active region
Image20200525_Ha_RCT_AR by Stuart Green, on Flickr

150mm/Lunt 35 mod view.
Image20200525_ar by Stuart Green, on Flickr

and the proms....
Image20200525_Prom by Stuart Green, on Flickr

Image20200525_Prom_colour by Stuart Green, on Flickr

Animated proms... apologies for not reorienting the 65 images in this sequence. If there's a way of automating this then someone please let me know ;)

Image20200525_Prom by Stuart Green, on Flickr

Quadrant in Ca II K over the active region.
Image20200525_CaK_AR by Stuart Green, on Flickr

Image20200525_CaK_AR_colour by Stuart Green, on Flickr

....and a Ha full disk to finish with. SS version using the front mounted DS module on a 72mm refractor.

Image20200525_Ha_FD_colour by Stuart Green, on Flickr


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Looks like you had a productive start of the week. Very nice animation as well!


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Excellent set of images Stu! Seeing was half decent for me this morning too, even got the HaT out but have still got to process so remains to be seen what comes out. Hope the eye is better.


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Hi Stu.
Superb images and an awesome animation.
What a terrific session you had!
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Very well done.


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Fine images Stuart. I was imaging with the HaT the same plage field but was running out of time, my images were far too soft on processing.
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Post by eroel »

Stu:
Superb shots all of them, hope to make an animation like yours. (where can I learn how)
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Excellent and the animation is superb. Very good resolution of that filigree plasma


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Post by EGRAY_OBSERVATORY »

Hi Stuart,
I have also this afternoon taken many Ha images of this prom and yet to process them, albeit unlikely to be as good as yours and the animation.
The detail shown in the animation really does show the movement of the prom.

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Very nice work Stu. So far my Monday has been cloudy. No sun yet.


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A really great work, Stu.


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Post by Montana »

Triple WOW Stuart, I love that animation :bow :bow :hamster:

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