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Thanks Pete.

Thanks.

Thanks for your encouragement.

Seeing conditions improved a little since this morning.

Stunning!

Thank you for your understanding. I was given the same message on the forums that I was over-sharpening. It made a huge improvement in my images as I learned to be far more "subtle."

Thanks!

The seeing conditions steadied again as the sun sank towards the trees. AR3040 continued to flare in different areas. Here is a later image: Typical of the many I captured. 16.50 [UTC] is approaching 7pm locally. 18.50 [CET]

I had quite a decent image of AR3040 at 13.56 [UTC] Went off to look around the limb. Nice big prom just north of the AR. Returned to AR3040 at 14.01 to find AR3040 was flaring. Meanwhile, thin high cloud had arrived a ruined the earlier seeing!

Excellent image! Keep at it!

Excellent animation Alex! Well done!

I most sincerely apologise. My clumsy attempts at humour have clearly missed the mark.

I'm afraid you are missing the point. Every image has the potential to be uniquely important. Solar flare? Incoming asteroid? Nova? Supernova? Neptune catches fire? First Contact? Father Christmas on his sleigh? ISS crossing the field of view? Not all instruments are recording constantly. Few are pointing at the same target. Far, far worse, than any of the above: Your fellow forum-mites will hold back from gushing praise. For even the most unique and utterly astounding/outstanding image. Simply because you had your camera on upside down. 🤣

The seeing was soft and the image highly mobile on the monitor. So, as usual, I kept on capturing [for hours] and processing in the hope of better moments. The first image is deliberately overexposed to show the prom part of the filaprom. I lost my original images overnight so had to download them from my blog.

An image of an astronomical object is a historical and "scientific" record of that moment or moments. This is not a trivial matter IMHO. Would you post a picture of a hijacked bus or a famous person upside down? Presumably not. It would trivialise the moment.

Great stuff! An all-rounder! You, not the sun. We know the sun is round. 🙃

Great image! You captured stuff I couldn't see! Well done!

Hi Peter Lots of detail but go easy on the sharpening. Aim for a more natural look. Capture > AS!3 for stacking > ImPPG for magic > image handing software for colouring.

The only thing wrong with this image is the orientation and the rather odd colour. Look up "Space Weather" for correct orientation. Were you using a blue filter?

Thanks. I just wish the seeing was better.

Seeing is awful! Soft, defocusing, bodily distortion and lateral physical movement.

Some superb detail and scale. Shows serious promise in better seeing. Thanks for ImPPG.

There is plenty of timber structure within the buildings for the cat to climb down safely. It just needed to remember how it got there. No felines were injured in the construction of this thread.

Hi David and thanks. The old dome houses my 6" f/10 H-alpha, solar refractor. The new 4.3m /14' Ø GRP dome will house my 6". Plus my 7" [f/12] refractor and my 10" f/8 Newtonian. I don't have room in my 3m/10' dome for the longer instruments. So I have been concentrating on H-alpha solar imaging. The new dome is down on the ground in front of the obs. building. Waiting for crane hire when the larger building [and dome] are completed.

Early this morning I looked across at my half finished observatory. To see a cat desperately trying to escape from the new base ring. It was 4m or 12' above the ground and kept putting a foot over the edge. Then going round and around looking for a safer way down. Eventually it dropped down inside. Between the two, nested buildings. I have been over to check but there was no sign of it. Presumably gone. The poor image was taken through a rain covered window.