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Those are the reasons I have turned to the "Light Side" !! I think I may change my user name to SunNut as that is what I mostly do now. Well done on being featured on SPOD, it's great to see.
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Great images Vin, I am particularly impressed with thew 3rd one, it has everything!
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13th Jan 2022 Fantastic prom's today and AR's
MoonNut replied to Nigella Bryant's topic in Observing - Solar
Ahhh, I was going to view the Sun today but got side tracked. It is good that there is some increasing activity after a long quiet period! Thanks for sharing Nigella. -
That's a good start Lunator! What software are you using?
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A nice report Stu, things are certainly "hotting Up" with our local star after such a long quiet period! After reading your post I will definitely be out in the morning with my Solar Rig taking some images
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Great images, you have made a good start!
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Wow, I do like that! With your permission, I will shamelessly copy it. I will post a pic when I have finished it. Thanks for sharing Sean!
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Well, I got up, got out and saw the comet Very nice in the binos but could not pick it out naked eye. Tried some DSLR photography and captured it, but so feint that it is just a small fuzzy patch. But, I got it!!! Surprised at how light the sky was to the North. I was also treated to the Saturn/Moon/Jupiter conjunction, Mars looking splendid and Venus rising through the trees! All finished off by the ISS passing overhead at 03:58. Glad I managed to drag myself out of bed!
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I am set up and observing the Sun today too. And I agree, it is much better than shivering at the EP!
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Jonk, that is a fantastic shot. Thanks for sharing.
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I do but on Mint. Just checked what is pre-installed, was a bit surprised! Unfortunately, updates no longer work, but here is the list: Aladin Astro CL - co-ordinate converter Astro Lab 2 Celestia GCX Image Processor GPredict Gravity Iimage IRAF Terminal Iris K Stars Meteroical Nightshade Observation Manager Open Rocket Open Universe Planets Radio Meteor Analyser Registax 6.1 Sky Charts (Cartes DuCiel) Sky Globe 6 Stellarium Star Plots (star chart viewer) Virtual Moon Atlas Where is M13 WXAstro Capture XEPhem XTide Plus, lots of Astro background pics, screensavers etc and a RED theme. All very well done TBH.
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Ah, looks like DistroAstro is no more, the download is no longer available. I have it on an HD that I use on my Obsy PC and I have a CD 'somewhere" so if anyone had a burning desire to have a look, drop me a PM and I will send a copy.
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I am a big fan of Mint, it is actually built on Ubuntu, and use it on all of my systems as dual boot with Windows 7. I use K Stars, Stellarium and Virtual Moon Atlas all the time. There is an Astronomy Distro out there, http://www.distroastro.org/ , which has a lot of scientific software pre-installed although it is quite old now.