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Re: October Solar Challenge

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That's a beauty :hamster: is that the sea or wispy clouds?

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Wow, lovely shot.

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Hi James,

That is an excellent image. The clouds make it a lot more dramatic ...


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A late arrival? ;)

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Beautiful :bow

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I am checking out a possible new site for solar imaging on the 22nd floor of a public housing flats. Here is the view of the rising sun at 7am:

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Wow!! I bet the seeing is probably better at that height too. Seems to be a consistent finding that folks who image from a balcony get amazing seeing.

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Finally a sunset view for me in October for the solar challenge. Still a lot of cloud around :roll: :roll: although it does help to create mood.

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Great additions Stuart :bow

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:hamster: beautiful :hamster:
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Finally got a cloudless sunset, lol. The third image where I underexposed as much as I could has some slight sunspot detail visible from the 2 main sunspot groups (or I need to clean my lense, one of the two:), and a touch of green on top, though I don't know if that is green flash or just funky dispersion due to being so low on the horizon.

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Oooooooh you definitely got the sunspots and a hint of green too :hamster: :hamster: :hamster: looks like you are going to win those bonus points :)

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Montana wrote: Fri Oct 22, 2021 12:01 pm That's a beauty :hamster: is that the sea or wispy clouds?

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Lower 1/3rd is the sea, and upper 2/3rd's is wispy clouds.

And I'll take any bonus points I can get, lol:)


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AJamesB wrote: Tue Oct 26, 2021 6:04 am Finally got a cloudless sunset, lol. The third image where I underexposed as much as I could has some slight sunspot detail visible from the 2 main sunspot groups (or I need to clean my lense, one of the two:), and a touch of green on top, though I don't know if that is green flash or just funky dispersion due to being so low on the horizon.

Great! All in one frame and spots and green, just amazing.

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Superb set of pics as the sun reaches the horizon...beautiful :bow

I may have missed it, but what body of water were you shooting over?

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MapleRidge wrote: Tue Oct 26, 2021 12:12 pm Superb set of pics as the sun reaches the horizon...beautiful :bow

I may have missed it, but what body of water were you shooting over?

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Thanks! Its the Pacific Ocean, looking West off the Southern portion of the island of Maui, Hawaii.


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Wonderful pictures everyone, I don't have the click I'm not good to this. The weather today is cloudy and raining for solar sketching, so.....just for fun
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That is amazing Marios :hamster: :bow do you have a gallery for all your art (real life or online)?

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marios i. wrote: Thu Oct 28, 2021 7:37 am Wonderful pictures everyone, I don't have the click I'm not good to this. The weather today is cloudy and raining for solar sketching, so.....just for fun
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I think sketching is a legit entry. We can do sketches of what we see in the eyepiece, why not a sketch of what one feels in the soul on a rainy, sunless day. Be it the sun, or the spark of creativity within, both bring a shining light into our lives:) Or something like that, lol.


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Montana wrote: Thu Oct 28, 2021 7:44 am That is amazing Marios :hamster: :bow do you have a gallery for all your art (real life or online)?

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No I don't ! :lol: just for fun Alexandra and Thank you.
AJamesB wrote: Thu Oct 28, 2021 8:31 am
marios i. wrote: Thu Oct 28, 2021 7:37 am Wonderful pictures everyone, I don't have the click I'm not good to this. The weather today is cloudy and raining for solar sketching, so.....just for fun
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I think sketching is a legit entry. We can do sketches of what we see in the eyepiece, why not a sketch of what one feels in the soul on a rainy, sunless day. Be it the sun, or the spark of creativity within, both bring a shining light into our lives:) Or something like that, lol.
Nice comment AjamesB and Thank you !


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Great sketch Marois!!!

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Hi all...

The weekend forecast is for cloud and rain here, and with a clear sunrise on Thursday (28th), I figured it would be my last opportunity to get a sunrise shot for the Solar Challenge. Much of my eastern horizon has trees in the distance, so a clear sunrise over the horizon doesn't work well without traveling to a better view point.

So, that said, here is my sunrise through the trees, with a little fall colour showing too.
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Here's my take, sunrise, just after 9am this morning from Reykholt where we are staying in Iceland, it's a zoomed in mobile phone pic so excuse quality. The volcano to the left of the sun is Hekla, one of the most active volcanoes in Iceland, fortunately it didn't erupt (so far!) while we are there. Hoping skies remain clear as this evening there is G3 (KP7) solar storm forecast to hit from the X flare earlier in the week.

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Great to see the your Iceland sunrise Mark!

I hope that you have clear skies and aurora to photograph too.

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Fabulous guys :hamster: fingers crossed for the aurora pics tonight, forecast to be clear in the UK :hamster:

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marktownley wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 9:20 am Here's my take, sunrise, just after 9am this morning from Reykholt where we are staying in Iceland, it's a zoomed in mobile phone pic so excuse quality. The volcano to the left of the sun is Hekla, one of the most active volcanoes in Iceland, fortunately it didn't erupt (so far!) while we are there. Hoping skies remain clear as this evening there is G3 (KP7) solar storm forecast to hit from the X flare earlier in the week.

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Hopefully you'll get a great view if it happens tonight and some animation shots timed to UT so I can check my magnetometer against your visual record.

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One of last sunsets from 30 October.
You can see in the darkest part my observatory.
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