The past month has not been very favorable for astronomy due to the weather and I think it has been close to three weeks since my last solar session.
After the wild windstorm here on Saturday night the skies on Sunday stayed clear all day long. I feel lucky as it was no where near as bad as the folks in the US Midwest experienced with massive tornado damage and loss of life
. The dome has been decommissioned as part of the construction of the new observatory, as I had to disconnected the hydro and network cables until the new one is fully up and running. As a result the LS80T solar scope is piggy backed on the C14 in the large roll-off and will be my limit for solar work for a while. I may dismount the C14 and setup the Orion 130/LS80T solar combo once I have finished with Jupiter for the season...maybe over Christmas?So, back to the Sunday solar imaging...clear skies and absolutely terrible seeing. The full disk through the DS Ls80T/LS75FHa/B1800Ha solar scope turned out well, and I tried a 2x focal extender to boost the image scale too. These turned out well despite the seeing, but maybe I should have used the 2x or 2.5x instead.
There were not a lot of AR's on the disk, but a nice collection of proms and filaments were present. First image is the full disk image, using a 1.6x barlow with the ASI1600MM camera:
- Full-Ha_12122021.jpg (799.48 KiB) Viewed 470 times
- 3x_LS80T-East.jpg (584.22 KiB) Viewed 470 times
- 3x_LS80T-NW.jpg (401.26 KiB) Viewed 470 times
- 3x_LS80T-SW.jpg (577.87 KiB) Viewed 470 times
- 3x_LS80T-NW Prom-2.jpg (155.18 KiB) Viewed 470 times
- 3x_LS80T-W-Prom.jpg (109.58 KiB) Viewed 470 times
- 3x_LS80T-SW Prom.jpg (153.06 KiB) Viewed 470 times
- 3x_LS80T-NE Prom.jpg (120.45 KiB) Viewed 470 times
- 3x_LS80T-NE Prom-2.jpg (145.34 KiB) Viewed 470 times
Take care everyone,
Brian
I see what James means about the caribou prom, I think that is the only one you didn't get a close up of 
