Hey all,
It rained most of today, tropical storm Albert just keeps dumping it on us, days after his demise. I haven't seen blue or the sun in 2 weeks at this point, until today. I held out and found a brief moment with some access to the sun, at least, with a lot of haze and clouds between me and it. I still imaged. My persistence was rewarded when AR2712 started flaring with activity. It was really interesting to watch it go from a dark region to suddenly active with some flares around the umbra lines near the spots. Really cool to watch happen and managed to image a little of it. Some great prominences around the limb, a pillar like prom and some groups.
Equipment:
Celestron Omni XLT 120 (120mm F8.3 refractor)
Orion ST80 (400mm F5 refractor) with a 60mm aperture mask (F6.66)
Baader UV/IR Block Filter (ERF)
Daystar Quark Chromosphere
Orion Sirius
Conditions:
Results:
AR2712 flares away suddenly!
Full disc mosaic:
Made with the ST80 (with 60mm aperture mask, F6.6)
Very best,
Sunspot AR2712, some flaring, today's proms | Quark | June 2nd 2018
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Re: Sunspot AR2712, some flaring, today's proms | Quark | June 2nd 2018
Very nice, Marty. Lots of great detail in both the AR and proms. It's a blue sky start to the day here, so I'm hoping to have a good session too. I'll see what the atmosphere is doing!
Flares are always exciting to see 'live'. Hopefully there's still some activity this morning.
Stu.
Flares are always exciting to see 'live'. Hopefully there's still some activity this morning.
Stu.
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Re: Sunspot AR2712, some flaring, today's proms | Quark | June 2nd 2018
A really nice set there Marty, thanks for sharing!
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Re: Sunspot AR2712, some flaring, today's proms | Quark | June 2nd 2018
Marty:
Really nice session in spite of Albert.
Best regards,
Eric.
Really nice session in spite of Albert.
Best regards,
Eric.
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Re: Sunspot AR2712, some flaring, today's proms | Quark | June 2nd 2018
I am really glad you got a break in the clouds, I thoroughly enjoyed these, wonderful processing and presentation and lots of great details, lovely!
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Re: Sunspot AR2712, some flaring, today's proms | Quark | June 2nd 2018
It looks like you had a great session. The results are excellent !
Franco
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