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Great pics I am envious still over cast here but next week is looking good.

Lovely images its not quantity but quality and you certainly achieved the quality

Look forward to that sort of activity again.

You lucky people very overcast here yesterday not much better today so far

Yes have to agree Novella produces some lovely images.I use a lunt 60 PT 1200bf capture with sharpcap Usually 600 frames stack in autostakert then copy to Astroart7 to give colour.I use a zwo178mm camera. You will get there , so much depends on the seeing conditions and of course the sun's activity

Very nice . Just how far in the past did you take them

A good programe for stacking your avi files is Autostakkert available as a free download

. Arrived today from FLO adaptor for my NEQ6 tripod that has never been used. Ready for my Skywatcher Star adventurer mount when it arrives (soon I hope.) A bit over kill but as I already had the tripod shame not to make use of it.

Nice work Nigella

Tried myself today conditions terrible could not get much better than that so you should get much better when conditions improve

Wow and I was complaining about my leaking obey roof that can't be fixed until the weather improves. Hope you get it fixed alright.

Lovely shots as usual from you nothing but wind rain and clouds here

Nice have you got a magic wand that makes the cloud disappear

Yes agree nice images

Now you say that It will stick in my mind yum Jaffa Cakes

Arrived a couple of days ago Lunt 1.5 to 2 inch adapter

That is just brilliant

Yes equipment problems had the myself last night very frustrating especially when you get one of those rare clear nights. That seems to be the way with this hobby Dave

Managed a short session at 2pm and there was a nice sun spot the clarity was not great but managed a picture.

Thanks Merlin Will experiment with what gear I have but any thing I come up with can only be fixed via a mounting bar as the Lunt scope does not have a means of fixing to it with out fear of damage.Thanks again for the info.

Hi Merlin Picture of motor as requested.Would be interested how you have attached yours

Will do Merlin will have to be tomorrow off to Bed and had a bit to much port.

I will be back viewing the sun again ( if it decides to show itself ) but will be doing it remotely. Have checked out my Lunt LS60 PT and found like others on the forum that the blue filter in the diagonal was cloudy. However an e mail to lunt who put me in contact with Bressner resulted in a new filter free of charge. Have fitted the scope to a vixen bar and tube rings allowing me to fit a skywatcher bracket and focus motor to the bar, did try another motor with drive wheels and belt but it was not smooth enough. Will be using a ASI178mm camera will be able to set up just outside my warm room so will be out of the direct sun myself. So looking forward to some activity this year. Would be interested if anyone has a better way to motorize the focuser that is not to expensive, have just ordered a new mount so astronomy fund is low.

When we moved to our present bungalow we had the old type street light outside it was quite bright I phoned the council and believe it or not they turned up the following day and fitted a shade. When it came to the light being changed to led they replaced the whole top of the light so of course we lost the shade. I again phoned the council this time they transfered my call to the light installers. They were very curteous and explained that the light were designed to just luminate the area benearh but realised that this did not all ways work and had ordered some shades and as soon as they were available they would fit one.True to there word a few weeks later it was fitted. I was surprised how small the shade was but the difference it make was quite impressive.

Thanks Billhinge but deceiided to leave it as it is and buy a new mount when I have given it more thought.