I has a clear start to the day but a lot of cloud began to drift in after I nicely started to image. I was able to grab a few full disk and higher resolution Ha images before I was shut down for an hour or so. There were not a lot of features today, the remains of AR2717 and a region starting to rotate into view were the main features. There were no proms of any significance while I was imaging so I finished up before the clouds.
The first is a single full disk image through the LS80T/LS75FHa/B120Ha solar scope:
- LS80T_LS75_104601-ASI.jpg (288.32 KiB) Viewed 313 times
- 3x_CR150_DSII-0_105147-ASI.jpg (496.63 KiB) Viewed 313 times
- 3x_CR150_DSII-0_105147-ASI-inv.jpg (538.17 KiB) Viewed 313 times
- East.jpg (715.89 KiB) Viewed 313 times
- East-inv.jpg (863.38 KiB) Viewed 313 times
The midnight lightning in the topic refers to my session last night. I headed out to take a crack at imaging Mars, but there was frequent cloudy periods that obscured mars and I could hear thunder in the distance. I started to see some lightning obscured by clouds in the north, so I pout the DSLR on a tripod and began to gram images with the hopes of catching some lightning. As it turned out eh actual storm was 100Km (60 miles) to the north and all I was seeing was the discharge illuminated clouds. I finish grabbing images just before midnight and was pleasantly surprised how nicely the storms progress was shown in the pics (plus on little bolt of lightning ) as it drifted to the east. The stars of the big dipper are seen slowly drifting down and are hidden by clouds near the end of the video clip. The video was assembled form 50 x 15sec exposures...click the icon below to open the clip.
Aug 4th Storm.mp4- (427.51 KiB) Downloaded 31 times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YUalvH ... e=youtu.be
It is to be clear tonight, so maybe I will have more luck with Mars this time
As always, questions and comments are welcome.
Brian
