Bank Holiday Monday Sunshine - 29th MAy

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Bank Holiday Monday Sunshine - 29th MAy

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We've had high pressure dominating our weather for a while and while you might expect blue skies and sunshine this sadly is not the case. Our air mass is coming in off the (relatively) cool North sea, and has been dragging in cloud. This thickens overnight and burns off (generallY!) late in the afternoon evening; as I type this now it is thick enough that we have quite persisitent drizzle...

Anyway, Monday afternoon came along and the low level crud started to burn off around lunch time revealing milky higher layers. Experience tells me that while this can negatively impact on image contrast it does have a positive effect on seeing. So, I decided to get the 152mm frac out and have a go with the solar spectrum 0.3a.

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Image2023-05-31_07-35-09 by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Notice the mighty midgetb Stellarvue 50 whitelight setup on the solarfind mount in the background, great for those quick peeks!

Seeing wasn't quite up to the 150mm resoltion, but the results weren't rubbish. I upped the frame count to 4000, and took 10 runs of each subject knowing that lucky imaging would reveal a 'best image'. I think the first was the best shot as after the sky intially cleared it started to cloud over again. with both seeing and transparency dropping.

Imagear13315 Ha 152mm f24 tz4 ss03a imx174 by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Imagear13310 Ha 152mm f24 tz4 ss03a imx174 by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Imagenorth east activity 152mm f24 tz4 ss03a imx174 by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Imagechain active regions 152mm f24 tz4 ss03a imx174 by Mark Townley, on Flickr

While not ideal, was certainly better than no sun at all. Hoping the weather will clear up a bit in these coming days; we're off on the boat so space in the car permitting there will be some kind of travelling kit coming with me.

Hope you have clear skies!

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A great set of images Mark! Your setup looks very impressive.

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There is a ton of detail in there Mark. They look great!


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Fantastic images Mark with lovely details.


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We noticed the midlands seem to be always under cloud :( you should live up north :lol: I'm hoping for this Saturday, fingers crossed it lasts, I'm finally at home this weekend :hamster:

Fabulous shots :bow :hamster:

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These turned out great Mark!


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Perfect detailed pictures. Your set has excellent resolution.


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My lovely telescope!


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Lovely images Mark!

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😂. That mighty mite StellarVue setup is tiny! But sometimes tiny things work well.

Nice images.

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I think you Brits are having better luck in seeing the sun than I have been, lately. Enjoy.

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Great images, Mark. The weather and seeing conditions are so frustrating at the moment, but you’re making the best of it with that setup.

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A beautiful set, Mark, in the not so good conditions. Nice setups too. We had problems here also with smoke from fires in Western Canada first and more recently from fires in the East.

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Thanks everyone for the kind words. Ouyt on the boat at the moment with the travelling kit. Been cloudy so far apart from an hour yesterday afternoon when I got some nice views in with the sunoculars.


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Good luck on seeing the Sun and have a nice boating weekend.


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Very pleasant shots with such decent setup!!

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Great images Mark, the solar spectrum 0.3a looks great. I wish I had one :-)


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Thanks guys. Cloudy here this morning, i'm going to move to some open fields soon and hopefully get a nice sunny day.


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marktownley wrote: Sat Jun 03, 2023 4:55 am Thanks guys. Cloudy here this morning, i'm going to move to some open fields soon and hopefully get a nice sunny day.
Good luck, Mark.


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