Solar Halo 29 05 2022

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Solar Halo 29 05 2022

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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.

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and here the video of about 17 seconds = 4 hours and some clouds passing through.




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Re: Solar Halo 29 05 2022

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That's a lovely halo and a lovely palm tree too :D

Great to hear the mount is getting better, did you send it back to be fixed? the animation is great, with some flaring too :bow :hamster:

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Re: Solar Halo 29 05 2022

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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
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Re: Solar Halo 29 05 2022

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Montana wrote: Tue May 31, 2022 7:03 am That's a lovely halo and a lovely palm tree too :D

Great to hear the mount is getting better, did you send it back to be fixed? the animation is great, with some flaring too :bow :hamster:

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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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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 :mrgreen:



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Re: Solar Halo 29 05 2022

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Glad you have made friends with the gardener, always some progress there :)

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Re: Solar Halo 29 05 2022

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Rainer,
Now befriend the neighbor and he may have the gardener to remove the tree!!

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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 :mrgreen:


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rsfoto wrote: Thu Jun 02, 2022 1:57 pm 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 :mrgreen:

At least you tried.


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Re: Solar Halo 29 05 2022

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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.

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Re: Solar Halo 29 05 2022

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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
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.

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Re: Solar Halo 29 05 2022

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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


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