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: The high res images were taken through the modded CR150/DSII/B1800Ha scope. The first has the pressure in the DSII etalon at 0 PSI, mimicking a deep red 'visual' filtered image. There is still a trace of a few small dark pores in the region, shown as both positive and negative images: The final Ha images are from the eastern limb where there appears to be some emerging activity. The images below are a 3 frame mosaic: As is typical, after I closed up the observatory and went in to work for a few hours the sun came out

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.
or pry this link:
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