November 18th - Ha Session

[MapleRidge]

Good day everyone...

I was fortunate to have clear skies on Saturday morning and though the seeing was not overly good I made an effort to grab some solar images.

As usual, I captured a series of FD images through the LS80T/LS75FHa/B1800Ha solar scope and had a 1.6x barlow ahead of the ASI1600MM camera. The FD image below is a composite of separate exposures of the disk and limb:

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The Orion EON130 was setup with he Daystar Quantum and 4x Powermate to image the active regions in greater detail using the ASI432MM camera:

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4xOR130_DSQ_113757_AR3488.jpg (413.98 KiB) Viewed 373 times

4xOR130_DSQ_113845_North.jpg (900.32 KiB) Viewed 373 times

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4xOR130_DSQ_114122_South.jpg (635.03 KiB) Viewed 373 times

The proms were on the smaller side but there did appear to be a bit of a loop prom on the eastern limb...maybe starting to decaying? :

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4xOR130_DSQ_114322-East-Proms.jpg (108.44 KiB) Viewed 373 times

4xOR130_DSQ_114601_NE-Proms.jpg (163.07 KiB) Viewed 373 times

4xOR130_DSQ_114718_NW-Proms.jpg (86.69 KiB) Viewed 373 times

4xOR130_DSQ_114846_SW-Proms.jpg (65.07 KiB) Viewed 373 times

That was all from Saturday. We are starting to get a dose of winter starting tomorrow (Tuesday) with snow forecast and daytime highs around freezing for the next week or two. I'd like a few more weeks of dry weather (cold is ok) to allow customers to get further along with corn harvest

Brian

[rigel123]

Great set of pics Brian, you got some of those faint proms too!

[DeepSolar64]

Very nice Brian. I really like the fainter delicate proms your images reveal.

James

[Carbon60]

Another lovely set of images, Brian. Nice captures.

Stu.

[Montana]

I like these faint proms too! a great set Brian winter already, enjoy the snow here the weather is the usual bland, dark and rainy. Autumn seemed to last for one weekend before the storm blew them all away

Alexandra

[ffellah]

Good session, Brian. You have all sorts of solar features and the full disk is excellent !

Franco

[MapleRidge]

Warren, James, Stuart, Alexandra, and Franco...

Thanks for all of your comments and support on the results of the session...always appreciated

Alexandra, winter has become an on/off season in the past 40 years and with the El Nino influencing weather this winter I suspect we will have less snow and more mud. We are still close enough to the Great Lakes we could get some big snow events when the lake effect snow kicks in but not likely to stay long...only time will tell

Brian

[eroel]

Brian:
Beautiful images.
Best regards.
Eric.

[marktownley]

Nice results here Brian!

[MapleRidge]

Eric and Matk...

Thanks for your feedback...much appreciated

Brian

[arnedanielsen]

Lovely collection Brian!

[MapleRidge]

Many thanks Arne

Brian

[KMH]

Great collection, Brian!
Good luck on the weather. We had our first snow here (New Mexico) Friday night. El Nino should be good for us in that regard.

Kevin