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Citizen Science
Dear all,
Everyone enjoys our pretty pictures, many of which are stunningly detailed and breathtaking, or in animated form display the structure and dynamics of plasma flow on a grand scale. We may now have a chance to contribute to solar science. From violet to red we cover the spectrum, at all scales, as a global network of motivated enthusiasts. Whether full disk, or magnified view of an active region, or images of filaments, prominences, granulation, flares, sunspots (genesis, evolution and decay) there’s usually a forum member somewhere on the planet capturing data to record the event.
What we record is useful scientific data. In the New Year Alexandra, Mark and I will be meeting with one of the UKs leading solar research teams in London to discuss just how useful our data might be, even in a world with SDO, Big Bear and DOT. For this I’m hoping to impress them with our abilities and achievements on SolarChat and with this I’m appealing for your help.
What I need for the slide deck presentation are examples of your best images in any light and at any scale: stills, animations, SHG analyses and so forth to really showcase what we can bring to the scientific community as a powerful global team.
If you are interested in contributing to science, please post your best images to this thread for easy access for me to download. I will, of course, make the final slides available to anyone wishing to use them for similar purposes.
I think this is an exciting opportunity for us all and I thank you all in advance for your contributions.
Best regards
Stu.
Everyone enjoys our pretty pictures, many of which are stunningly detailed and breathtaking, or in animated form display the structure and dynamics of plasma flow on a grand scale. We may now have a chance to contribute to solar science. From violet to red we cover the spectrum, at all scales, as a global network of motivated enthusiasts. Whether full disk, or magnified view of an active region, or images of filaments, prominences, granulation, flares, sunspots (genesis, evolution and decay) there’s usually a forum member somewhere on the planet capturing data to record the event.
What we record is useful scientific data. In the New Year Alexandra, Mark and I will be meeting with one of the UKs leading solar research teams in London to discuss just how useful our data might be, even in a world with SDO, Big Bear and DOT. For this I’m hoping to impress them with our abilities and achievements on SolarChat and with this I’m appealing for your help.
What I need for the slide deck presentation are examples of your best images in any light and at any scale: stills, animations, SHG analyses and so forth to really showcase what we can bring to the scientific community as a powerful global team.
If you are interested in contributing to science, please post your best images to this thread for easy access for me to download. I will, of course, make the final slides available to anyone wishing to use them for similar purposes.
I think this is an exciting opportunity for us all and I thank you all in advance for your contributions.
Best regards
Stu.
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H-alpha, WL and Ca II K imaging kit for various image scales.
Fluxgate Magnetometers (1s and 150s Cadence).
Radio meteor detector.
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Fluxgate Magnetometers (1s and 150s Cadence).
Radio meteor detector.
More images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarcarbon60/
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Stu: I think it is a great idea. I am very happy you and Alexandra are taking the lead on this. Not sure my images will be up to the task but I am willing to give it a try. At our observatory a team does occultations and that is a contribution to science. Some images to follow....
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Franco, your images will always be up to the task. If you imaged it then you have captured it! What is more vital is that you know the time and date. I always have the camera settings in Firecapture set so the file is automatically time and date stamped then that bit is sorted.
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I'm up for it, let's see what we can do.
http://brierleyhillsolar.blogspot.co.uk/
Solar images, a collection of all the most up to date live solar data on the web, imaging & processing tutorials - please take a look!
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Stu and Alexandra...
Sounds good to me!!!
This reminds me of the days when I had more time and made regular submissions (primarily Mars and Jupiter) to support NASA/JPL/ALPO/Hubble programs. It would be great to have the solar observations utilized as well.
Brian
Sounds good to me!!!
This reminds me of the days when I had more time and made regular submissions (primarily Mars and Jupiter) to support NASA/JPL/ALPO/Hubble programs. It would be great to have the solar observations utilized as well.
Brian
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Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/185395281@N08/albums
10'x15 Roll-off Roof Observatory
Takahashi EM400 Mount carrying:
C14 + Lunt 80ED
Deep Sky Work - ASI294MM Pro+EFW 7x36/Canon 60D (Ha mod), ONAG
Planetary Work - SBIG CFW10, ASI462MM
2.2m Diameter Dome
iOptron CEM70G Mount carrying:
Orion EON 130ED, f7 OTA for Day & Night Use
Ha Setup: Lunt LS80PT/LS75FHa/B1200Ha + Home Brew Lunt Double Stack/B1800Ha on the Orion OTA + Daystar Quantum
WL, G-Band & CaK Setup: Lunt Wedge & Lunt B1800CaK, Baader K-Line and Altair 2nm G-Band filter
ASI1600MM, ASI432MM, ASI294MM Pro, ASI174MM, ASI462MM
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I’d love to contribute in some meaningful way. I’m wondering if there are some image processing guidelines we should follow to preserve the scientific value of the data. I keep all my image capture logs. Thank you for taking point and please keep us posted.
Christopher
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Re: Citizen Science
Here are some images
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Re: Citizen Science
It's great, Stu, a fantastic opportunity. I don't have particularly good images for contributing but I am sure you'll collect many fine pictures for your presentation from our most skilled forum members. Thanks for sharing with us.
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Re: Citizen Science
Hi Stu,
I love the idea. Here are some of mine, technical details are in the Astrobin descriptions.
Sunspot animations in white light:
Flare in The Monster (spectacular loops, but poor quality from an unfinished mod):
March 2015 partial eclipse in Hα:
Prominences and surges on the limb:
M-class flare:
5 hours of solar rotation (fast-forward) with minor flaring:
Large sunspot with minor activity and penumbral waves:
Bad/good seeing comparison:
I love the idea. Here are some of mine, technical details are in the Astrobin descriptions.
Sunspot animations in white light:
Flare in The Monster (spectacular loops, but poor quality from an unfinished mod):
March 2015 partial eclipse in Hα:
Prominences and surges on the limb:
M-class flare:
5 hours of solar rotation (fast-forward) with minor flaring:
Large sunspot with minor activity and penumbral waves:
Bad/good seeing comparison:
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Re: Citizen Science
Thanks everyone for your support. There are some really great images coming through.
Please everyone, keep them coming.
Stu.
Please everyone, keep them coming.
Stu.
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Fluxgate Magnetometers (1s and 150s Cadence).
Radio meteor detector.
More images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarcarbon60/
Fluxgate Magnetometers (1s and 150s Cadence).
Radio meteor detector.
More images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarcarbon60/
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Hi, Stu
This is a great idea. It also gives people a chance to reminisce on better days. I have a feeling, though, that you may have your hands full in editing all the choices presented for your final batch. Anyway, here are my contributions:
This is a great idea. It also gives people a chance to reminisce on better days. I have a feeling, though, that you may have your hands full in editing all the choices presented for your final batch. Anyway, here are my contributions:
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Dear Stu, Mark, and Alexandra,
that is an excellent initiative. In this forum there is worldwide expertise at a very high level available so chances to obtain interesting data for science may be quite good. The question will actually be where - from the professionals - the interests are, and if there is a sufficient number of contributors here willing to submit images.
Beeing a (non-astronomical) imaging scientist myself I would expect, however, that for a real pro-am collaboration the aim will bo more to produce scientific data (=picture) quality rather than "pretty pictures". Also, some standardization of the imaging and postprocessing may be required.
A lot of excellent image material from the amatuer community is already available at repositories such as the ALPO Solar Archives (http://alpo-astronomy.org/gallery3/inde ... ns-Archive ), or the International Solar Database (http://solardatabase.free.fr/demande_par_mail_en.html). At least from ALPO I know that they aim at pro-am collaboration as well, but to me it appears to be more amateur driven and I have a hard time to identify useful scientific data drawn by professionals from these databases. However, this can be just ignorance and incomplete knowledge from my side
Anyway, I would be happy to contribute. Below please find some image material from myself which I have presented on this forum earlier.
Good luck for your inititiative and let us know if you need support!
Best wishes,
Laura
that is an excellent initiative. In this forum there is worldwide expertise at a very high level available so chances to obtain interesting data for science may be quite good. The question will actually be where - from the professionals - the interests are, and if there is a sufficient number of contributors here willing to submit images.
Beeing a (non-astronomical) imaging scientist myself I would expect, however, that for a real pro-am collaboration the aim will bo more to produce scientific data (=picture) quality rather than "pretty pictures". Also, some standardization of the imaging and postprocessing may be required.
A lot of excellent image material from the amatuer community is already available at repositories such as the ALPO Solar Archives (http://alpo-astronomy.org/gallery3/inde ... ns-Archive ), or the International Solar Database (http://solardatabase.free.fr/demande_par_mail_en.html). At least from ALPO I know that they aim at pro-am collaboration as well, but to me it appears to be more amateur driven and I have a hard time to identify useful scientific data drawn by professionals from these databases. However, this can be just ignorance and incomplete knowledge from my side
Anyway, I would be happy to contribute. Below please find some image material from myself which I have presented on this forum earlier.
Good luck for your inititiative and let us know if you need support!
Best wishes,
Laura
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Re: Citizen Science
Hi Stu & Alexandra,
excellent idea but I agree completely with Laura. Going for science if very different from the Pretty Picture stuff. That (and some other discussions on this forum latelely) made me lean towards things where contribution to science is still possible. (Variables, Minor Planet light curves ...) Still a lot of studywork and equipment change needed.
If contribution to solar work is possible, I will for sure do the needed observations, if within my budget. (I have time) There are opportunities, see this project http://fchroma.astro.uni.wroc.pl/index. ... guide.html and there tuturial. A pitty it stopped after this one.
Regards,
Paul
excellent idea but I agree completely with Laura. Going for science if very different from the Pretty Picture stuff. That (and some other discussions on this forum latelely) made me lean towards things where contribution to science is still possible. (Variables, Minor Planet light curves ...) Still a lot of studywork and equipment change needed.
If contribution to solar work is possible, I will for sure do the needed observations, if within my budget. (I have time) There are opportunities, see this project http://fchroma.astro.uni.wroc.pl/index. ... guide.html and there tuturial. A pitty it stopped after this one.
Regards,
Paul
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This is a great idea !
Here are the links to some images.
Newton 300 mm, G band, K-line, filigrees, faculae
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... -430nm.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... -B1920.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... -430nm.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... 30-2nm.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... nm-2nm.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... -500nm.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... -540nm.jpg
TOA 150 Ca K :
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... ASI290.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... 54mnUT.jpg
C11 Ha disk
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... 3A-F27.jpg
C8 Ha :
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... n03F35.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... -Ion03.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... 03A-C8.jpg
C8 Ha prominences :
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... -PE06A.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... Ion03A.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... -PE06A.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... 8-PE06.jpg
Best regards
Here are the links to some images.
Newton 300 mm, G band, K-line, filigrees, faculae
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... -430nm.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... -B1920.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... -430nm.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... 30-2nm.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... nm-2nm.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... -500nm.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... -540nm.jpg
TOA 150 Ca K :
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... ASI290.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... 54mnUT.jpg
C11 Ha disk
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... 3A-F27.jpg
C8 Ha :
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... n03F35.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... -Ion03.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... 03A-C8.jpg
C8 Ha prominences :
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... -PE06A.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... Ion03A.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... -PE06A.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/viladrich/astro/so ... 8-PE06.jpg
Best regards
Christian Viladrich
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http://planetary-astronomy.com/
Editor of "Solar Astronomy"
http://www.astronomiesolaire.com/
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http://planetary-astronomy.com/
Editor of "Solar Astronomy"
http://www.astronomiesolaire.com/
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Re: Citizen Science
Feel free to use any of my images available in my website
LINKS:
solar images
http://re.apaaweb.com/sun_h_alpha.html
animations
http://re.apaaweb.com/sun_h_alpha_GIFS.html
SUN (20150825) WL & H-alpha AR12403. LUNT152 F/6, 2" Baader Ceramic Herschel Wedge, BF3400, X4 Powermate, PGR GRASSHOPPER 3
SUN (20150825) WL & H-alpha AR12403. LUNT152 F/6, 2" Baader Ceramic Herschel Wedge, BF3400, X2 Zeiss Abbé Barlow, PGR GRASSHOPPER 3
SUN (20141025) AR12192 WL. LUNT152 F/6, 2" Baader Ceramic Herschel Wedge, X4 Powermate, PGR GRASSHOPPER 3
SUN (20141025) AR12192 WL & H-alpha. LUNT152 F/6, 2" Baader Ceramic Herschel Wedge, BF3400, X1.6 Barlow, PGR GRASSHOPPER 3
SUN (20141025) AR12192 CaK. LUNT152 F/6, LUNT152 CaK Module, X1.6 Barlow, PGR GRASSHOPPER 3
SUN (20141025) WL & CaK (08:00 UTC). IKHARUS 80mm F/7, 2" Baader Solar Wedge, LUNT 1200 CaK Module, PGR GRASSHOPPER 3
SUN (20170906) WL, CaK & H-alpha. LUNT152 F/6, 2" Baader Ceramic Herschel Wedge, LUNT152 CaK Module, BF3400, X2 Barlow (@X1.4), PGR GRASSHOPPER 3 GS3-U3-28S4M
SUN (20170906) WL & H-alpha. LUNT152 F/6, 2" Baader Ceramic Herschel Wedge, BF3400, X2 Barlow (@X1.4), PGR GRASSHOPPER 3 GS3-U3-28S4M
LINKS:
solar images
http://re.apaaweb.com/sun_h_alpha.html
animations
http://re.apaaweb.com/sun_h_alpha_GIFS.html
SUN (20150825) WL & H-alpha AR12403. LUNT152 F/6, 2" Baader Ceramic Herschel Wedge, BF3400, X4 Powermate, PGR GRASSHOPPER 3
SUN (20150825) WL & H-alpha AR12403. LUNT152 F/6, 2" Baader Ceramic Herschel Wedge, BF3400, X2 Zeiss Abbé Barlow, PGR GRASSHOPPER 3
SUN (20141025) AR12192 WL. LUNT152 F/6, 2" Baader Ceramic Herschel Wedge, X4 Powermate, PGR GRASSHOPPER 3
SUN (20141025) AR12192 WL & H-alpha. LUNT152 F/6, 2" Baader Ceramic Herschel Wedge, BF3400, X1.6 Barlow, PGR GRASSHOPPER 3
SUN (20141025) AR12192 CaK. LUNT152 F/6, LUNT152 CaK Module, X1.6 Barlow, PGR GRASSHOPPER 3
SUN (20141025) WL & CaK (08:00 UTC). IKHARUS 80mm F/7, 2" Baader Solar Wedge, LUNT 1200 CaK Module, PGR GRASSHOPPER 3
SUN (20170906) WL, CaK & H-alpha. LUNT152 F/6, 2" Baader Ceramic Herschel Wedge, LUNT152 CaK Module, BF3400, X2 Barlow (@X1.4), PGR GRASSHOPPER 3 GS3-U3-28S4M
SUN (20170906) WL & H-alpha. LUNT152 F/6, 2" Baader Ceramic Herschel Wedge, BF3400, X2 Barlow (@X1.4), PGR GRASSHOPPER 3 GS3-U3-28S4M
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Re: Citizen Science
Dear Alexandra and Stu,
I am excited to hear that you are looking into the possibility of extending our contribution to citizen science.
I am able to contribute with high-resolution H-alpha, Calcium-K and G-band images.
Here is an example for H-Alpha imaging:
The M-Class flare on 23 Jul 16 captured with an ARIES D-ERF on a CELESTRON 150mm refractor was featured in an article "Recruiting flare hunters for citizen science" by by F-CHROMA. You can read the article at: http://www.fchroma.org/files/agfhunters.pdf
You can also view an animation of the flaring sequence taken by me at: https://twitter.com/yltansg/status/924129488148901888
These images were featured in the News & Reviews in Astronomy & Geophysics Volume 58, Issue 6
December 2017 ISSN 1366-8781 EISSN 1468-4004.
For G-band images, I hope to contribute something like the following:
All the best in your coming meeting with the research team in London.
Alfred, Singapore
I am excited to hear that you are looking into the possibility of extending our contribution to citizen science.
I am able to contribute with high-resolution H-alpha, Calcium-K and G-band images.
Here is an example for H-Alpha imaging:
The M-Class flare on 23 Jul 16 captured with an ARIES D-ERF on a CELESTRON 150mm refractor was featured in an article "Recruiting flare hunters for citizen science" by by F-CHROMA. You can read the article at: http://www.fchroma.org/files/agfhunters.pdf
You can also view an animation of the flaring sequence taken by me at: https://twitter.com/yltansg/status/924129488148901888
These images were featured in the News & Reviews in Astronomy & Geophysics Volume 58, Issue 6
December 2017 ISSN 1366-8781 EISSN 1468-4004.
For G-band images, I hope to contribute something like the following:
All the best in your coming meeting with the research team in London.
Alfred, Singapore
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Re: Citizen Science
Hi Stu.
Well done! I applaud what you, Mark and Alexandra are planning. There seems to be a pretty active pro-am collaboration in stellar spectroscopy and it would be exciting to see something similar happen with solar observations. It would definitely be interesting to find out if there is some niche which amateur solar imagers could contribute to that isn't covered by the professional terrestrial and extra-terrestrial telescopes that continually monitor the Sun.
There are many exquisite filtergram images available from the members of this community, much finer than my own. I'd be happy to provide some spectroheliograms for you to include in your presentation. I've done a number of projects with the SHG to measure, for example, velocity fields in prominences and on the disk, solar rotation, magnetic fields and filament temperatures. These kinds of studies are interesting to me but probably irrelevant to solar researchers who have their own specific analyses to apply. The images I've included here will give an idea of the kinds of raw data that an amateur spectroheliograph can yeld. Hopefully they'll be useful to your proposal.
Here is a montage showing the basic strength of spectroheliography: imaging at a specific wavelength of choice.
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=18063
The next two images use the dopplergram technique to highlight velocity information which is easily accessible in the processing steps required to generate any spectroheliogram.
Velocity fields in a CaII H prominence.
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12031 Chromospheric velocities (H alpha) near a sunspot.
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=22830
Of course, basic spectroscopy is also an option with a spectroheliograph!
Here is an example which shows a "moustache" spectrum associated with a bright spot in this CaII H active region (lower portion of the image).
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12329 Here are some CaII H prominence spectra.
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12329
Hope this is of use.
All the best.
Peter.
Well done! I applaud what you, Mark and Alexandra are planning. There seems to be a pretty active pro-am collaboration in stellar spectroscopy and it would be exciting to see something similar happen with solar observations. It would definitely be interesting to find out if there is some niche which amateur solar imagers could contribute to that isn't covered by the professional terrestrial and extra-terrestrial telescopes that continually monitor the Sun.
There are many exquisite filtergram images available from the members of this community, much finer than my own. I'd be happy to provide some spectroheliograms for you to include in your presentation. I've done a number of projects with the SHG to measure, for example, velocity fields in prominences and on the disk, solar rotation, magnetic fields and filament temperatures. These kinds of studies are interesting to me but probably irrelevant to solar researchers who have their own specific analyses to apply. The images I've included here will give an idea of the kinds of raw data that an amateur spectroheliograph can yeld. Hopefully they'll be useful to your proposal.
Here is a montage showing the basic strength of spectroheliography: imaging at a specific wavelength of choice.
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=18063
The next two images use the dopplergram technique to highlight velocity information which is easily accessible in the processing steps required to generate any spectroheliogram.
Velocity fields in a CaII H prominence.
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12031 Chromospheric velocities (H alpha) near a sunspot.
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=22830
Of course, basic spectroscopy is also an option with a spectroheliograph!
Here is an example which shows a "moustache" spectrum associated with a bright spot in this CaII H active region (lower portion of the image).
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12329 Here are some CaII H prominence spectra.
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12329
Hope this is of use.
All the best.
Peter.
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I have to say, I’m deeply impressed and humbled by the response from everyone; but then again your keenness to support this initiative was really only to be expected, as we are a highly motivated and very capable community. The interest expressed here in contributing to solar science speaks volumes.
For those of you on the sidelines, please make yourselves known as this has to be totally inclusive. Everyone must know that they can participate.
Anyhow, I’m on business in the US this week and so access for me will be limited until I return to the UK this weekend. In the meantime please continue to showcase.
I hope to pull something together during December.
Really excellent work, everyone.
Stu.
For those of you on the sidelines, please make yourselves known as this has to be totally inclusive. Everyone must know that they can participate.
Anyhow, I’m on business in the US this week and so access for me will be limited until I return to the UK this weekend. In the meantime please continue to showcase.
I hope to pull something together during December.
Really excellent work, everyone.
Stu.
H-alpha, WL and Ca II K imaging kit for various image scales.
Fluxgate Magnetometers (1s and 150s Cadence).
Radio meteor detector.
More images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarcarbon60/
Fluxgate Magnetometers (1s and 150s Cadence).
Radio meteor detector.
More images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarcarbon60/
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Thanks Apollo. I hope to do better with CAK this yearTheSkyBurner wrote: ↑Mon Nov 26, 2018 6:22 amAlfred your animation is incredible! Literally, the best I have ever seen by an amateuryltansg wrote: ↑Mon Nov 26, 2018 12:47 am
You can also view an animation of the flaring sequence taken by me at: https://twitter.com/yltansg/status/924129488148901888
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Hi Stu and Alexandra,
a fine idea! Within my possibilities I am certainly willing to contribute! I'll post some images over the weekend.
Frank
a fine idea! Within my possibilities I am certainly willing to contribute! I'll post some images over the weekend.
Frank
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Alexandra and Stu:
Some old ones...
Thanks,
Eric.
Some old ones...
Thanks,
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Re: Citizen Science
Alexandra and Stuart...
I too had a look though images from a few years back in the midst of the peak in activity, most of these coming from 2014 and 2015. I included a variety of WL/CaK/Ha images taken through several scopes and filters. It was nice getting a look at these images again, and some stood out even after a few years since capture.
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I too had a look though images from a few years back in the midst of the peak in activity, most of these coming from 2014 and 2015. I included a variety of WL/CaK/Ha images taken through several scopes and filters. It was nice getting a look at these images again, and some stood out even after a few years since capture.
Brian
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Planetary Work - SBIG CFW10, ASI462MM
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Ha Setup: Lunt LS80PT/LS75FHa/B1200Ha + Home Brew Lunt Double Stack/B1800Ha on the Orion OTA + Daystar Quantum
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Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/185395281@N08/albums
10'x15 Roll-off Roof Observatory
Takahashi EM400 Mount carrying:
C14 + Lunt 80ED
Deep Sky Work - ASI294MM Pro+EFW 7x36/Canon 60D (Ha mod), ONAG
Planetary Work - SBIG CFW10, ASI462MM
2.2m Diameter Dome
iOptron CEM70G Mount carrying:
Orion EON 130ED, f7 OTA for Day & Night Use
Ha Setup: Lunt LS80PT/LS75FHa/B1200Ha + Home Brew Lunt Double Stack/B1800Ha on the Orion OTA + Daystar Quantum
WL, G-Band & CaK Setup: Lunt Wedge & Lunt B1800CaK, Baader K-Line and Altair 2nm G-Band filter
ASI1600MM, ASI432MM, ASI294MM Pro, ASI174MM, ASI462MM
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Lots of stunning images here. Thanks everyone.
I’ll work with a Alexandra and Mark to pull a slideshow together over the coming weeks, aiming to showcase our capabilities.
It will be interesting to hear what the experts say and, learn about what they require.
Best to all.
Stu.
I’ll work with a Alexandra and Mark to pull a slideshow together over the coming weeks, aiming to showcase our capabilities.
It will be interesting to hear what the experts say and, learn about what they require.
Best to all.
Stu.
H-alpha, WL and Ca II K imaging kit for various image scales.
Fluxgate Magnetometers (1s and 150s Cadence).
Radio meteor detector.
More images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarcarbon60/
Fluxgate Magnetometers (1s and 150s Cadence).
Radio meteor detector.
More images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarcarbon60/
Re: Citizen Science
This afternoon I've been digging in my hard drive - found some older images:
Frank
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