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David Smith
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More sunshine, poor seeing today though.
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Yay, sunshine Nothing doing in white light as usual but a little activity in Ca-K.
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Wow, has it been that many! My memory gets worse I take it all back and if anyone figures out how to be in two places at once, please let me know
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Remember SGL SP moved from March to October this year. IAS has been around the middle of October for a number of years now. And now we expect IAS to move to suit us!
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Not sure which planets may be in retrograde over the coming months, I'm sure someone will chip in. Retrograde movement is a relative motion against the background stars caused by the Earth "over-taking" a planet in it's orbit. So the only way to see this is to plot the relative position of the planet against the background star field over a period of time covering the "over-taking maneuver". So it's not a quick thing to do but a nice mid to long-term project over the winter months. Good luck!
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heads up new AR on the oncoming limb 11-10-18
David Smith replied to xtreemchaos's topic in Celestial Events Heads Up
Good catch Charl. I managed to catch them visually but no chance of imaging with the wind the way it is. -
Typical, the Sun has spots, the clouds have parted but it's blowing a gale
No imaging for me today.
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Missed out on scope-time yesterday as I was in London most of the day. Nothing to stop me today so had a decent session this morning. Usual lack of activity in white light so as a bit of a challenge I decided to try and shoot a white light mosaic with the ASI178 at native 1000mm focal length of the Evostar. I was quite shocked when Autostitch actually managed to put it all together! Then on to the usual Ca-K imagery. Some nice proms on show to make up for the lack of activity on the disk. Nice to be imaging in shorts and t-shirt in mid-October
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I can see why you had to shoot it, what a cracker. Showed up in Ca-K today too.
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Fabulous disks Steve.
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Very nice. Best get some imaging in before the rain sets in.
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Some nice activity. Good set.
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Nice. That big prom showed up in Ca-K today too.
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Hopefully will be there on Saturday. My wife's birthday on the Friday so limited options this year.
. carnt you find a place where the wind is blocked ?. charl.
