Easter Sunday Sunshine 17th April

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Easter Sunday Sunshine 17th April

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Woke up this morning to bright skies, i'm not going to say clear, just rather white and hazy. We had a few hours to pass around breakfast, and with shadows visible on the ground I decided to go and see what was going on, especially as the active region rounding the limb has been flaring away for the last 24 hours.

The double stack on the travelling kit still needs work as i'm still not getting the repeatability of use I want without lots of fiddling and faffing, i'm being Mr self critical again... But, there is lots to see which is good, even if it takes a time to get there...

ImageHa-DS50-2x-cemax-ICX814-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

ImageHa-DS50-2x-cemax-ICX814-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Imageactive-regions-DS50-2x-cemax-zwo290mm-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Imageactive-regions-DS50-2x-cemax-zwo290mm-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

ImageAR12993-12994-DS50-2x-cemax-zwo290mm-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

ImageAR12993-12994-DS50-2x-cemax-zwo290mm-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Imagedeparting-ar-DS50-2x-cemax-zwo290mm-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Imagedeparting-ar-DS50-2x-cemax-zwo290mm-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Imagefilaprom-DS50-2x-cemax-zwo290mm-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Imagefilaprom-DS50-2x-cemax-zwo290mm-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

I seem to have got newtons rings on these closer views - more work to be done!

Hope you like my misty shots!

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Re: Easter Sunday Sunshine 17th April

Post by astroshot »

Good stuff Mark.
Glad to see someone had some sunshine.
Raining all day here unfortunately.
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Nice results, Mark. Challenging under hazy skies, but a nice tour of the disk.

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Nice captures Mark, the new sunspots and flare activity look promising.

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These are really good Mark, and glad to see you triumphed over the earlier sky conditions :bow

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Re: Easter Sunday Sunshine 17th April

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Nice set of images, Mark.

I probably wouldn't even have noticed the slight newton rings (assuming that's indeed what it is) if you didn't mention it.


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A beautiful set with the traveling kit, Mark.There is again a lot of activity at this time.

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There are so much details on the FD. Well done!

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Re: Easter Sunday Sunshine 17th April

Post by Montana »

Terrific Mark, who needs a higher aperture when you can get detail like this out of a 50mm :bow :hamster:

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Very nice, Mark! Having a small setup ready to image is key to make use of short windows clear skies or breaks in a hectic everyday life.

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Re: Easter Sunday Sunshine 17th April

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Thanks all! I do like the travelling kit. I think I have come across a very simple fix to square up the sage caused by the weight of the etalons, just need some sunshine to test the idea out...

I also managed a Cak disk on sunday too, but thick haze isn't the best for imaging in these wavelengths, still, you get an overview...

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A beautiful CaK addition, Mark.

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Excellent addition, Mark!

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Fantastic images Mark.


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