AR13007 in 'WL' 14th May 2022

[Carbon60]

Just one from today despite beautiful sunshine all afternoon. Unfortunately the seeing was pretty poor when the clouds cleared late morning. I took this one on a Tecnosky 125 with a Lacerta wedge fitted with a 430nm +/-10nm filter and x5 PM at a very fast exposure speed (65 microseconds) per frame to try to freeze the turbulence. 7000 frames in total, stacked and sharpened.

AR13007

20220514_430_AR13007_Mono by Stuart Green, on Flickr

20220514_430_AR13007_colour by Stuart Green, on Flickr

Rapidly degrading seeing conditions spoiled the view, so ended up gardening instead.

Thanks for looking.

Stu.

[eroel]

Stu:
Super clean crisp w/l image in 2 versions.
Best regards and thanks.
Eric.

[arnedanielsen]

Beautiful work Stu!

Best regards,
Arne

[nicosolcy]

Beautiful!

Over here, dust, clouds and a bit of rain, so today I live vicariously through your stunning images!

[ffellah]

Excellent work, Stu. Love it.

Franco

[Alun_H]

Fantastic image Stu,love the detail.

Alun

[DeepSolar64]

Stu,
You got the individual granules easily!! Very nice details in the spots/pores too. Did you notice the lighter halo around the triple-umbra-spot and the other spot to it's southwest? Now what could that be?

James

[JochenM]

Nice shot, Stu.

AR13007 is quite the pleasing looking spot group.

[Carbon60]

Stu,
You got the individual granules easily!! Very nice details in the spots/pores too. Did you notice the lighter halo around the triple-umbra-spot and the other spot to it's southwest? Now what could that be?

James

Hi James,
My processing highlights disturbed granule regions around these groups making these regions appear a little brighter than in the raw stacked image. This is what you're seeing in these images.

Stu.

[MAURITS]

Very nice looking images Stu.

[nicspenceryork]

These are wonderful Stu. I did a half hour animation of this area in WL first thing on Saturday and I thought the difference I could see around the 3 spot area was a weakness in my processing but having seen yours I seem to have picked it up just as it was (not with as much detail with my less powerful kit!)
I'm really interested in the colour choices for WL at the moment as I've been used to 'sou'wester yellow' but I'm liking more of a 'lemon drizzle' these days... interesting to see how everyone approaches it.
Thanks for your continued inspiration,
Nic

[Montana]

These are showing a beautiful 'bright ring' Stuart, great shots I loved the halpha on the other post too

Alexandra

[DeepSolar64]

Stu,
You got the individual granules easily!! Very nice details in the spots/pores too. Did you notice the lighter halo around the triple-umbra-spot and the other spot to it's southwest? Now what could that be?

James

Hi James,
My processing highlights disturbed granule regions around these groups making these regions appear a little brighter than in the raw stacked image. This is what you're seeing in these images.

Stu.

I was wondering whether it was a processing artifact or the bright ring that sometimes surrounds spot regions. Thanks Stu!

James

[vineyard]

Given the conditions, that's excellent. I had a short stint of visual only w a Vixen SP102 at f/10 and it was tough going - some v fleeting moments of clarity but otherwise pretty turbulent. So that's really well mitigated in that image - especially the granules.

[DeepSolar64]

Given the conditions, that's excellent. I had a short stint of visual only w a Vixen SP102 at f/10 and it was tough going - some v fleeting moments of clarity but otherwise pretty turbulent. So that's really well mitigated in that image - especially the granules.

A Vixen SP102. I would love to have one of those. I still would rather have a Japanese made refractor than a Chinese made one. In this way I still favor Vixen and Takahashi over the Synta made ones.

[vineyard]

A Vixen SP102. I would love to have one of those. I still would rather have a Japanese made refractor than a Chinese made one. In this way I still favor Vixen and Takahashi over the Synta made ones.

Yes the Vixen never stops surprising me. Its held 333x views on Martian icecaps without breaking a sweat. Crazy. Occasionally I think about letting it go - and then I realise I'd be the crazy one!

[DeepSolar64]

A Vixen SP102. I would love to have one of those. I still would rather have a Japanese made refractor than a Chinese made one. In this way I still favor Vixen and Takahashi over the Synta made ones.

Yes the Vixen never stops surprising me. Its held 333x views on Martian icecaps without breaking a sweat. Crazy. Occasionally I think about letting it go - and then I realise I'd be the crazy one!

Nope, Vin. I would keep that one!!