Solar Halo 29 05 2022
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Solar Halo 29 05 2022
Hi,
Yesterday I had a nice 22° Solar halo.
I also made a tracking test with my mount and looks like iOptron finally managed to get good tracking. Astonishingly they also compensate the declination drift. In 4 hours the Sun drifts about 85.8" ~ 1' 26".
I just started a new test and will let it run as long as I can but I am seeing clouds already.
From time to time not very often I had to correct the position of the Sun but it was not more then for about 10" arc seconds. The video is a time frame of 4 hours and 3 minutes.
and here the video of about 17 seconds = 4 hours and some clouds passing through.
Yesterday I had a nice 22° Solar halo.
I also made a tracking test with my mount and looks like iOptron finally managed to get good tracking. Astonishingly they also compensate the declination drift. In 4 hours the Sun drifts about 85.8" ~ 1' 26".
I just started a new test and will let it run as long as I can but I am seeing clouds already.
From time to time not very often I had to correct the position of the Sun but it was not more then for about 10" arc seconds. The video is a time frame of 4 hours and 3 minutes.
and here the video of about 17 seconds = 4 hours and some clouds passing through.
regards Rainer
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Re: Solar Halo 29 05 2022
That's a lovely halo and a lovely palm tree too
Great to hear the mount is getting better, did you send it back to be fixed? the animation is great, with some flaring too
Alexandra
Great to hear the mount is getting better, did you send it back to be fixed? the animation is great, with some flaring too
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Re: Solar Halo 29 05 2022
VERY WELL CAPTURED RAINER OF WHAT ONE MIGHT ASSUME IS A RARE-EVENT, BUT ACTUALLY IS QUITE COMMON, RATHER RARER TO CAPTURE VERY WELL.
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SO RECENTLY, WHILST TRAWLING MY ARCHIVES, FOUND THIS ONE OF ME FLYING THROUGH A "GLORY" OVER ESSEX/U.K. IN ONE OF OUR PIPER CHEROKEE AIRCRAFT, MANY YEARS AGO...
PERHAPS NOT THE BEST OF CAPTURES, BUT WHILST FLYING, TIME CAN BE SHORT TO BETTER THE RESULT.
I DO THOUGH HAVE SOMEWHERE SOME SHOTS OF TRYING TO FLY THROUGH/TOWARDS RAINBOWS, BUT ALAS I CAN NEVER SEEM TO CATCH-UP WITH
SUCH !! I WONDER WHY ??
THIS IMAGE IS SCANNED FROM AN ORIGINAL SLIDE..
ENJOY
TERRY
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SO RECENTLY, WHILST TRAWLING MY ARCHIVES, FOUND THIS ONE OF ME FLYING THROUGH A "GLORY" OVER ESSEX/U.K. IN ONE OF OUR PIPER CHEROKEE AIRCRAFT, MANY YEARS AGO...
PERHAPS NOT THE BEST OF CAPTURES, BUT WHILST FLYING, TIME CAN BE SHORT TO BETTER THE RESULT.
I DO THOUGH HAVE SOMEWHERE SOME SHOTS OF TRYING TO FLY THROUGH/TOWARDS RAINBOWS, BUT ALAS I CAN NEVER SEEM TO CATCH-UP WITH
SUCH !! I WONDER WHY ??
THIS IMAGE IS SCANNED FROM AN ORIGINAL SLIDE..
ENJOY
TERRY
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Re: Solar Halo 29 05 2022
Hi Alexandra,
No, I did not send it in as that would have cost me a lot of money. They seemed to have made a better firmware but I made a test yesterday and well, it is really not that good as I said before. I need to correct every 15 minutes by about 10". OK, before the last firmware it was horrible. Another thing I noticed it looks like the famous SDE Sub-Divisional error of the encoders has been tamed a bit.
The Sun at the moment is not flaring strong.
Just started another run until I can image towards the West ... Perhaps I make some full discs again ...
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Re: Solar Halo 29 05 2022
Hi Alexandra,
Here the video of yesterday which was about 3 hours
BTW, the neighbiurs gardener was here and I chopped off a part of the branches of the palm tree
Here the video of yesterday which was about 3 hours
BTW, the neighbiurs gardener was here and I chopped off a part of the branches of the palm tree
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Re: Solar Halo 29 05 2022
Glad you have made friends with the gardener, always some progress there
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Re: Solar Halo 29 05 2022
Rainer,
Now befriend the neighbor and he may have the gardener to remove the tree!!
James
Now befriend the neighbor and he may have the gardener to remove the tree!!
James
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Re: Solar Halo 29 05 2022
Hi Alexandra and James,
The gardener is just following instructions from the neighbour. A few years ago I offered my neighbour to cut the palm trees down and I would pay for two new ones but he did not accept the offer. Perhaps he has a hammock hanging there
The gardener is just following instructions from the neighbour. A few years ago I offered my neighbour to cut the palm trees down and I would pay for two new ones but he did not accept the offer. Perhaps he has a hammock hanging there
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Re: Solar Halo 29 05 2022
At least you tried.
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Re: Solar Halo 29 05 2022
WHY NOT DO IT MY WAY RAINER - JUMP IN AN AEROPLANE - FLY INTO THE AIRCRAFT'S OWN SHADDOW AND SEE IF THEIR IS THE HALO, THEN SNAP AWAY ???
NO ARGUMENTS WITH NEIGHBOURS AT LEAST.
TERRY
NO ARGUMENTS WITH NEIGHBOURS AT LEAST.
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Re: Solar Halo 29 05 2022
One thing is a Sun halo and the other thing is a Sun glory. OK, I have a friend who owns a Helicopter flying service. Will tell him to teach me to learn fly Helicopter and then I can take a photograph of a Sun glory.EGRAY_OBSERVATORY wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 8:56 am WHY NOT DO IT MY WAY RAINER - JUMP IN AN AEROPLANE - FLY INTO THE AIRCRAFT'S OWN SHADDOW AND SEE IF THEIR IS THE HALO, THEN SNAP AWAY ???
NO ARGUMENTS WITH NEIGHBOURS AT LEAST.
TERRY
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Re: Solar Halo 29 05 2022
HELO-FLIGHT TRAINING IS A TAD EXPENSIVE FOR THE COMPLETE COURSE FOR A LICENCE, BUT CERTAINLY TO ASK FOR A FLIGHT WHEN THE WEATHER IS SUITABLE FOR PHOTOGRAPHING A "GLORY" - WHEN THE SUN IS HIGH-ENOUGH AND THE HEO'S SHADDOW CAN BE SEEN, COULD BE AN ANSWER.
LIKELY THAT THE CAPTAIN/PILOT WOULD KNOW WHEN THAT OPPOORTUITY COULD ARISE AND HOVER IN THE BEST POSITION FOR THE PHOTO OPPURTUNIES...
BEST WISHES RAINER...
TERRY
LIKELY THAT THE CAPTAIN/PILOT WOULD KNOW WHEN THAT OPPOORTUITY COULD ARISE AND HOVER IN THE BEST POSITION FOR THE PHOTO OPPURTUNIES...
BEST WISHES RAINER...
TERRY