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The good news was that despite a weather forecast of another major rain event with possible continued flooding, we woke to sunshine. The bad news was that it was short lived and the seeing was ordinary.

Continuing our conundrum of trying to understand Meteoblue's data, once again they had the seeing as sub 1 arc second while both indexes were average (4 and 2) and the jet stream was high at 31m/s. The actual outcome was worse than the indicated 4/2 indices, more like 2/1. This seems to happen every time with their data, when the arc seconds are less than 1, the seeing is terrible. Go figure!
In the brief time before the clouds came in we captured a full disk and a close up of the amazing complex of ARs 3145, 3140 and 3141.

Full disk Ha image taken with Daystar Solar Scout 60 double stacked with Lunt 40 etalon, ASI178MM camera and 0.5 reducer.
2022-11-13 full disk small.jpg
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Close up image taken with K102, Solar Scout Quark and ASI178MM.
2022-11-13 AR3145 3140 3141 small.jpg
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Great disks and closeups ! Very well done 👍

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These came out well!


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👍🏻👍🏻


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Thanks Franco, Mark and Warren :)


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Wow!! very nice, the full discs are fabulous but the close ups have such beautiful details :bow :hamster:

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Very nice to see, well done.


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Thanks Aaron, Alexandra and Maurits :)


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Hi:
A very nicesession, beautiful images.
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Very nice indeed.

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Thanks Eric, Stu and DeepSolar64 :)


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Very nice set of pictures. :bow


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pupak wrote: Wed Nov 16, 2022 1:01 pm Very nice set of pictures. :bow
Thanks pupak :)


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Superb image set.

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Alun_H wrote: Thu Nov 17, 2022 5:04 pm Superb image set.

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