AR2396 - Nearly Blew The Gap!

[Luke]

Hi All,

Nice to be back after my hols, chopping down the jungle in the garden afterwards, etc! Seeing was a bit ropey this morning and I almost blew the 15 minute gap! Couldn't find the sun, I had knocked my Sol Searcher out of kilter   Thanks for looking! Luke

PS rotation is wrong deliberately. as tribute to me also putting the camera in the wrong position. One of those days!!

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5th August, 2015

Equinox 120, Quark Chromosphere, Grasshopper 3 camera (ICX687), 0.5x reducer

[xtreemchaos]

great close ups mate,lovely detail. thanks for posting. charl.

[Zakalwe]

A very nice lightbridge in that sunspot Luke!

[Davey-T]

Good catch Luke, no Sun here today.

Dave

[MarsG76]

Love'em... I can almost feel the heat coming off the color pic.

[David Smith]

Great pics Luke.

[dazzaa1966]

Nice one Luke

[JamesF]

Gap?!  There was a gap?!

You've very nicely picked out that AR though

James

[Ewan]

Nice 'all in one shot' there Luke, nice to have you back mate.

[laudropb]

Nice detailed images. Thanks for posting.

[Pete Presland]

They have come out well despite the set backs.

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[KE400]

Very nice indeed, congrats

[Montana]

Splendid close up :)

Glad it is not just me that can't find the Sun

Alexandra

[Luke]

Thanks for the kind words, all!

I had a shorter capture that I was going to delete but I stacked it and thought I'd invert and try and show a little more detail on the proms. I find positive images so tough with proms.

Alexandra, you being unable to find the sun, being the solar system astrophotographer of the year, really tickles me :grin:

I am relieved I got something from the session! Lucky to catch some rays yesterday.

[Montana]

No one is perfect  I have actually improved recently as my hubby showed me how to use the Sol finder properly

Alexandra

[Davey-T]

Just spent ten minutes trying to find the Sun, centred in the Sol Searcher then realised I'd left the scope capped 

Dave

[1parsec]

The inverted image really does allow the detail in the proms to show. Nice. 

[Luke]

Just spent ten minutes trying to find the Sun, centred in the Sol Searcher then realised I'd left the scope capped 

Dave

I feared I'd left the cap on the Quark's scope-end nosepiece, I was half expecting to see smoke after capping the scope and taking the Quark out I think I was being punished for thinking, there comes a nice little gap, just enough time to reel off a dozen captures of the most interesting features...