David Smith

The usual high standards Steve 🫡

2 hours ago, sheffieldsunwatcher said:

Fab photos: the 'earth to scale' suggests that the earth would fit quite tidily into the big sunspot near the huge prom.

It is accurate to the best of my knowledge

1 hour ago, Rusted said:

Nice images.

It looks as if something serious is emerging around the limb.

Or is that the exit?

Big prom in the east (left side of the image) which could well be something about to poke its spotty head over the limb 😁

The big group from last weekend may have moved on but the sun is still very busy, lots of spots / groups, filaments in hydrogen alpha as well as prominences in hydrogen alpha and calcium k.

Tougher conditions today so imaging was a bit limited. Lots of cloud, occasionally a bit breezy and the seeing had moments 🙄. Anyway, persevered and managed to grab some white light / continuum shots. Spent some time visually with the Quark today (don't do that very often) which was interesting, watching the proms develop over the course of the afternoon.

Quite surprised these came out as well as they did!

Good job Steve, lots of clouds and rubbish seeing here today.

2 meteors, that's just greedy 🤣 Great combo of time-lapse and images, well done.

Cracking images, love the Aurora shot!

Wow, the "Full Monty" today Steve, nice one!

Nice shot. Was a close thing between Ca-K and white light for me but the white light view was quite spectacular.

Well spots and proms to be honest but the size of the prom in Ca-K Struggled with contrails and cloud this morning but made the best of it.

Good catch!

Finally a clear blue sky on a day when I can do some imaging! Firs images since late October 2023 Seeing was pretty poor, varying second-to-second so some of these mosaics are a bit uneven but I'm just glad to have been able to get out and enjoy a bit of solar.

After an early run in the rain the clouds cleared and left me with an almost cloud-free sky by 11am. Be rude not to get the scope out really wouldn't it? Glad I did, loads of spot activity, some nice proms in HA and Ca-K as well as some nice surface activity in HA!

White light full disks to kick off

That BIG spot up-close with the 3x barlow

A bit of granulation, just because I like it!

Ca-K full disks and close-up on AR13363. I did take some footage of the prom at "9 o'clock" using the barlow but did not come out well at all.

Close-up done using the 2x barlow in Ca-K due to seeing and breeze!

And finally in H alpha

Good set Michael, love the Ca-K images.

Wow, great set Dave. That animation is awesome!

Ooh, some nice granulation 😍 I must do some high res wl at some point.

Great shots Pete!

Finally got another session in. Seems we are either busy on weekends at the moment or it's cloudy / raining / thundering. I did actually manage to image on the 4th but had to rush out on that day and only found the unprocessed data on the laptop this morning!

Surprised to see some half decent seeing today, despite having to wait until midday to image. The usual White Light, Ca-K and H Alpha full disks below. Still struggle to get nice flat mosaics from my Quark and this one is particularly dodgy. Looks like the bottom right pane was shot and processed completely differently, it wasn't!

Nicely done. You still using the 1000D Steve?

Clear skies early this morning and working from home today so had some time to grab some solar. Conditions were far from ideal with passing cloud and variable seeing. Seeing actually settled a bit towards the end of the session so I went back and re-shot the white light. Should have done the same with the Ca-K really but ran out of time.

Nicely done Dave. Nothing but rain here,

White light close ups are superb Dave

Nice pair Dave, if you'll pardon the expression

Wow, busy morning. Great set as usual Michael.

Nicely done Dave. Weather not playing ball here 😢