Quick Solar on Sunday - 3rd July

[marktownley]

This morning promised clear(ish?) skies very first thing today, so, I decided to get up early, have revenge on the cats and wake them up too, and get outside setup ready to do some observing. The sky was very hazy, with high cloud scudding around most of the time. I started off with the Ha full disk with the DS50, and this was looking quite washed out contrast wise compared to what I can get in decent conditions, this made it harder to tune for an even disk.

Ha-FD-DS50-2x-cemax-zwo183mm-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Ha-FD-DS50-2x-cemax-zwo183mm-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

I decided to switch to CaK, and by now I seemed to have a bit of a window where the sky was more blue than milky, so set about snapping away. First off the full disk at 40mm f15 with the ZWO183mm:

CaK-FD-40mm-f15-zwo183mm-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

CaK-FD-40mm-f15-zwo183mm-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

The seeing wasn't great so not wanting to push it too much I opted for 66mm f15, again with the ZWO183mm.

AR13046-CaK-66mm-f16-zwo183mm-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

AR13046-CaK-66mm-f16-zwo183mm-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

ar13047-CaK-66mm-f15-zwo183mm-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr

ar13047-CaK-66mm-f15-zwo183mm-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Given a bit of blue sky and transparency makes all the difference (compared to the Ha), and are pleased with how the CaK came out. Totally clouded over now and a band of rain has just come through, so I think that is it for observing today, still, better than clouds all day!

Hope you like these and hope you have clear skies where you are!

Mark

[rigel123]

Those came out well Mark, you can definitely tell the transparency was better during the CaK shots.

[Dennis]

Its always trial and error with the weatherforecast..
Very crisp CaK images and closeups. The h-alpha is nice too.

[Ibbo]

Same conditions as here then.

Nice results Mark.

[eroel]

Mark:
Very good session, CaK came out crisp and clean.
Best regards.
Eric.

[DeepSolar64]

Mark,
While I like your Ha images your CaK images are tops! I love the colored CaK full disc!!

James

[Carbon60]

You got great results in a narrow observing window, Mark. No chance of anything useful here between the building work (dust risk) and cloudy conditions.

Stu.

[Martin_S]

The Cak is great Mark, well done.

[Montana]

Wow!! what time did you get up? it was raining when I woke up the Sun came out around 6pm for me.

Great shots Mark

Alexandra

[sywong2000]

Nice captures, especially the CalK!

[marktownley]

Thanks for the kind words everyone.

I was up around 4.30am ALexandra

[arnedanielsen]

Good results, Mark!

4:30 am... wow... that's dedication!

Best regards,
Arne

[ffellah]

Great pictures Mark ! Everything came out really well.

Franco

[DeepSolar64]

And you woke the cats up!!