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finally took out SHG
needs a bit of clean and tuning
todays sun cak
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I used PS cs3 for 1897 Muedon image

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im sure Wah! or Zetner can do a more clean job


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It came out well JOhn! Love the old records too!


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Fabulous and nice bit of history too, following in the footsteps of the great :hamster: :bow
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what cah and k lines look thru my UV to visible converter eyepiece
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and real dead sun today
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please excuse gnat that WANTED TO LOOK ALSO


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this is cleaner and notice prom upper right
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These are really detailed, certainly the bottom image is a cracker :bow I did laugh at the gnat :lol:

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I love these old plates. Well done !


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more fun at cak
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spectrum and part of sun thru UV converter eyepiece
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thx for compare omega 2s apo66
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Wow!! nice to see the spectral lines and the resulting CaK full disc and the comparison with the Omega filters too, great work :hamster: :bow

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cah cak aluminum 6 11

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Very nice indeed :bow is that a new little AR in the centre of the disc?

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no just a little calcium activity


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sun still dead

must of touched focus a bit

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a little later that day small hot spot K line H line and spectrum view
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6 23 sharpened up
caH line before SW magic and after
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6 24 caH
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caK note filament (dark thing)
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Nice selection! You got the filament well.


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that Al then caH


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It's quiet again!


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Great images!! not quite dead yet then :) a nice filament and mini active region :hamster:

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thx Montana
july 1 image Al caH
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Some interesting areas of bright plage :hamster: :bow

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Some of them are cycle 25 - the spectroscopes like this delve deeper than telescope/filter setups...


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ha! - Mark your right
I didn't notice until you guys pointed them out


yea with 2400 lpmm grating - caK caH more narrow in SHG than commercial stuff even though I have ability to double stack caK line with filters


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july 4 H K
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Great shots!! :bow
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thx

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cak 7 13 nice prom lower left
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7 14
its going dead again B&W shows prom on left
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These are great! :bow but not quite dead, I am sure I can see some hot spots in the high latitudes of the south. I hope these continue to form and give us more cycle 25 spots even if they are short lived.

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Excellent as always John like Alexandra says keep an eye open for those bright points in high latitudes.


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7 16 caK its quiet up there maybe one of you guys and do a sun dance to wake it up
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It definitely need a sun dance - give it a week or so ;)


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Very nice super granulation :bow I'm doing the dance :)

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7 30 caH

one has dark marks which are clouds
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Nice work :bow the area of plage in the middle is gradually dwindling with each rotation.

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