14th May 2022

[Montana]

This morning dawned a bit hazy cloud I and saw a sundog. I was all ready to catch the Sun first thing but I had to go out to have an MRI on my knee during my peak solar viewing hours I knew it would be sunny this morning! However, when I got home it was crystal clear and I solar viewed all afternoon. This seems to be my new time, again the seeing was much better this direction rather than the early morning over the new plantation of houses in the wheat field.

I started with the Solarscope. It has been behaving this year until today, when it was way off band. I tried everything from rotating the filter, blocking filter, wiggling the camera etc etc, no joy. It was way off with the screw jammed to its furthest extent. So I went off and sulked for 45 minutes and enjoyed a rum and coke. When I came back it was perfectly on band. I hadn't touched anything. So I took a full disc. Please click through to Flickr to enjoy full size.

2022-05-14 Halpha solar disc f colour by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

2022-05-14 Halpha solar disc by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

Next CaK with the Lunt wedge at 100mm

2022-05-14 CaK solar disc f colour by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

2022-05-14 CaK solar disc by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

I also include some images from 2 weeks ago. This was a small flare event which happened over 10 minutes. I thought it was C class flare but this was occurring in AR12994 at the same time so this one was not registered

This was with the TEC140 (125mm) / 4x TZ / SolarSpectrum / ASI174

Sun_084321_30_04_2022 by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

Sun_084321_30_04_2022 f colour by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

Alexandra

[Ibbo]

Very good Alexandra all it needed was the R&C

[Dennis]

Beautiful fulldisk images, also great job with the solar spectrum (i wish i had one too). *thumbsup*

[MAURITS]

Excellent FD's Alexandra, great shots and fine resolution with your SolarSpectrum.

[nicosolcy]

AR3007 is stunning in CaK!!!

[rsfoto]

Hi,

Well done

[ffellah]

Superb disks and close up, Alexandra. That Rum puts you in the right mood for solar

Franco

[Alun_H]

Fantastic images Alexandra

Alun

[Carbon60]

Excellent images, Alexandra, all of them.
The sky cleared only late in the morning here and the seeing was cr4p.

I must try the rum and coke approach

Stu.

[DeepSolar64]

Alexandra,

These are wonderful! I love the Ha image. It kills GONG and KSO with ease. Very nice detail, contrast and resolution. Just look how the magnetic fields disturb the Chromosphere spicule field around those active regions! Very nice coloration too. Those Solarscope etalons do great! I too sometimes have issues getting on band. Your CaK looks great too, what scope did you use for the CaK image?

Two thumbs up and a toe too!!

James

[eroel]

Alexandra:
Beautiful images all of them.
Best regards.
Eric.

[JochenM]

Nice set of images, Alexandra.

I can confirm that cussing and alcohol consumption are indeed the pillars of a successfull troubleshooting session.

[Montana]

thanks Jochen, it worked wonders

James, I used the same scope for both, the TEC140. I keep the Solarscope 100mm adapter on the front but unscrew the filters off, then use the Lunt CaK wedge. It takes about 5 minutes to change over.

Thank everyone for all the happy comments. I'm in a happy mood about our Eurovision 2nd place last night, we came second!!!! Europe gave us some votes last night, at last they loved us and didn't give us nil point which we have had for 20 years. That means more to me than a win hooray for Ukraine too and their win, it was a good song I also liked Norway's and Moldova (only the Europeans will understand )

Alexandra

[DeepSolar64]

Nice set of images, Alexandra.

I can confirm that cussing and alcohol consumption are indeed the pillars of a successfull troubleshooting session.

[MichaelTeoh]

Awesome!

[vineyard]

Excellent. Will have to add mini-bar to the solar kit.

[christian viladrich]

Hello Alexandra,
Nice collection of images.
The behavior of the Solarscope is quite upsetting :-(

[arnedanielsen]

Beautiful collection of images, Alexandra!

Best regards,
Arne

[LTHB]

The full disks are marvellous, as are the close-ups! (Like Dennis, I wish I had a SolarSpectrum filter too.)

Best regards,

Frank

[marktownley]

Great images Alexandra! I missed saturdays sunshine as we went away on the boat.