One and only of the day 14th May 2022

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One and only of the day 14th May 2022

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Opened up the observatory this morning under cloudless blue sky,aimed my air spaced Helios 150 f/8 achromat at the Sun just after 10:30 UT and after having focused I got the first 2000 frame SER with the Lunt CaK B12 module and QHY5III 178M at 10:34 UT and then twenty minutes in the limb of the Sun was boiling,focusing was nigh on impossible,but I persevered thinking the seeing would settle..What do I know?? So this is the only image of the day showing yet another transformation in the sunspot group AR 3007 as it creeps across the face of the Sun. Stacked in Autostakkert and sharpened using ImPPG and finished in Photoshop CS2.

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2022-05-14-1003_4-U-B-Sun_QHY5III178Mimppg.jpg
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Lunt 50THa solar scope
Lunt CaK B12 module
SW Evostar 72ED for full disk imaging
Sol'Ex SHG
80mm f/7 achromat used with pressure tune module off the Lunt with Lunt 100mm ERF
Bresser 90 f/10 achromat used for CaK & white light imaging & PST mod with Lunt 100mm ERF
Coronado SM40 (pre Meade) and BF10 filter set + SMII 60 richview DS etalon
Skywatcher EQ6 Pro and Ioptron CEM60
Then there is all the night kit which is far too long a list to write up here! :lol:
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Re: One and only of the day 14th May 2022

Post by DeepSolar64 »

WoW, Alun. That's an impressive view of AR13007 in the light of Calcium II K.

Is your Helios 150 achromat of Chinese manufacture?

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Alun:
Super CaK image.
Thanks.
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Very nice result, Alun.

Seeing was a mess here yesterday as well.


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Beautiful CAK image Alun.


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Thank you all for your kind comments :)

James,yes it is Chinese made and is the same scope as the Celestron C6-R with the collimatable objective cell.

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Lunt 50THa solar scope
Lunt CaK B12 module
SW Evostar 72ED for full disk imaging
Sol'Ex SHG
80mm f/7 achromat used with pressure tune module off the Lunt with Lunt 100mm ERF
Bresser 90 f/10 achromat used for CaK & white light imaging & PST mod with Lunt 100mm ERF
Coronado SM40 (pre Meade) and BF10 filter set + SMII 60 richview DS etalon
Skywatcher EQ6 Pro and Ioptron CEM60
Then there is all the night kit which is far too long a list to write up here! :lol:
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Great shot Alun. Are you using any Barlow or telecentric to get this close ?

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FAB IMAGE ALUN

THKS VM
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Thank you Terry :)

Thank you Franco,no Barlow nor telecentric used,just prime focus of the scope which has a focal length of 1200mm and using ROI on the camera in
Firecapture. ;)

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Lunt 50THa solar scope
Lunt CaK B12 module
SW Evostar 72ED for full disk imaging
Sol'Ex SHG
80mm f/7 achromat used with pressure tune module off the Lunt with Lunt 100mm ERF
Bresser 90 f/10 achromat used for CaK & white light imaging & PST mod with Lunt 100mm ERF
Coronado SM40 (pre Meade) and BF10 filter set + SMII 60 richview DS etalon
Skywatcher EQ6 Pro and Ioptron CEM60
Then there is all the night kit which is far too long a list to write up here! :lol:
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Super CAK image Alun.


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Wonderful CaK image, Alun!

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