Sunday Sunshine 19th May
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Sunday Sunshine 19th May
It was a busy weekend these past couple of days with friends stopping, late night chit chatting meant I wasn't up at my usual 'crack of dawn' weekend timings for the sunshine, and so was rushing to get the solar in. I'd imaged (even briefer) on Saturday morning and the seeing was surprisingly good, so I gambled Sunday might be on a par, it wasn't, it was worse, but not by a huge amount, so I just upped the number of frames being captured on the rationale that some of the frames would be good. It kind of did, but at the expense of huge amounts of data to chew through!
Starting off with the disks for the overview, the Ha wasn't shot until much later in the afternoon, the CaK was shot in the morning. Ha with the DS50 Lunt etalons, 2x cemax zwo183mm. CaK 40mm f15 with the zwo183mm.
Ha FD DS50 2x cemax zwo183mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
CaK FD 40mm f15 zwo183mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
I opted for closeups with 80mm f15 with the 2x cemax and zwo290mm in CaK, for Ha, and providing much the same resolution the 152mm f6 stopped down to 120mm to get to f7.5, throw in the 4x telecentric and the solar spectrum 0.3a sees f30, all recorded with the imx174 chipped FLIR camera. There are more CaK than Ha, I shot the CaK first, and by the time the Ha came along the seeing was failing and my hard drive filling...
ar13683 CaK 80mm f15 2x cemax zwo290mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
(seeing not great on this one!)
ar13683 Ha 120mm f30 ss03a imx174 by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar13685 CaK 80mm f15 2x cemax zwo290mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar13685 Ha 120mm f30 ss03a imx174 by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar13679 CaK 80mm f15 2x cemax zwo290mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar13679 Ha 120mm f30 ss03a imx174 by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar13674 CaK 80mm f15 2x cemax zwo290mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar13682 CaK 80mm f15 2x cemax zwo290mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar13672 CaK 80mm f15 2x cemax zwo290mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Note the fibrils coming out of some of the larger sunspots in CaK, they definitely have 'height' to them unlike in WL, kind of reminds me of tentacles from a sea anenome... Guess we are seeing up into the chromosphere...
Hope you like them.
Mark
Starting off with the disks for the overview, the Ha wasn't shot until much later in the afternoon, the CaK was shot in the morning. Ha with the DS50 Lunt etalons, 2x cemax zwo183mm. CaK 40mm f15 with the zwo183mm.
Ha FD DS50 2x cemax zwo183mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
CaK FD 40mm f15 zwo183mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
I opted for closeups with 80mm f15 with the 2x cemax and zwo290mm in CaK, for Ha, and providing much the same resolution the 152mm f6 stopped down to 120mm to get to f7.5, throw in the 4x telecentric and the solar spectrum 0.3a sees f30, all recorded with the imx174 chipped FLIR camera. There are more CaK than Ha, I shot the CaK first, and by the time the Ha came along the seeing was failing and my hard drive filling...
ar13683 CaK 80mm f15 2x cemax zwo290mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
(seeing not great on this one!)
ar13683 Ha 120mm f30 ss03a imx174 by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar13685 CaK 80mm f15 2x cemax zwo290mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar13685 Ha 120mm f30 ss03a imx174 by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar13679 CaK 80mm f15 2x cemax zwo290mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar13679 Ha 120mm f30 ss03a imx174 by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar13674 CaK 80mm f15 2x cemax zwo290mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar13682 CaK 80mm f15 2x cemax zwo290mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar13672 CaK 80mm f15 2x cemax zwo290mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Note the fibrils coming out of some of the larger sunspots in CaK, they definitely have 'height' to them unlike in WL, kind of reminds me of tentacles from a sea anenome... Guess we are seeing up into the chromosphere...
Hope you like them.
Mark
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Re: Sunday Sunshine 19th May
Great collection of superb closeups, Mark! I love all of them!
Best regards, Ivan.
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Re: Sunday Sunshine 19th May
Thanks, appreciate the kind words!
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Re: Sunday Sunshine 19th May
These are inspirational! Are the CaK in this post done with a Lunt or Alluxa or something else. Apologies if I missed it
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Re: Sunday Sunshine 19th May
The CaK looks like the texture of velvet: makes you want to brush your fingertips over it… might be a bit hot though!
Gorgeous!
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Gorgeous!
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Re: Sunday Sunshine 19th May
Great set Mark! Sea Anemone, great description.
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Re: Sunday Sunshine 19th May
Splendid shots Mark. Thx for sharing.
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Re: Sunday Sunshine 19th May
Thanks everyone for your kind words!
The CaK filter is one of my own construction, it uses Alluxa and Chroma filters.
The CaK filter is one of my own construction, it uses Alluxa and Chroma filters.
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Re: Sunday Sunshine 19th May
Mark,
The Alluxa and chroma CaK filter combo gives excellent contrast. Superb!!
James.
The Alluxa and chroma CaK filter combo gives excellent contrast. Superb!!
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Thanks guys!
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Those are terrific, Mark! I also really like the look of the carefully-tuned CaK images.
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Thanks guys!
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