Rusted

Nobody knows the troubles I've had... tra-la! Solid cloud with sucker holes. Seconds to capture a new ROI. Not even a chance to adjust the PST for a more even image.

Pete, About local seeing conditions and increased aperture: The long focal lengths push the magnification to ridiculous figures. Can you image over any nearby body of water? Is Gratham Water handy for you? Access possible to the northern shore with all your kit? Or can you get some local height over a rural landscape? Fields with crops are cooler than towns. Viewing over a grassy, southerly slope might help. Getting above ground forming thermal currents is the idea. You'd probably need a battery or PS.

Thanks Geoff. I thought the image was rather poor because of the seeing conditions. Chris

Mentioned in despatches? 😊 Hej Claus, Velcom til SGL. I am English but have been living in Denmark for 25 years. My Danish pronunciation has been described as appalling! I understand spoken Danish and read Danish. I'm on Vest Fyn. I have my own observatory and image the Sun and the Moon. Chris [Rusted]

Well done Pete. Remarkable scale and detail!

Very cloudy after a sunny start. Rapid image vibration/ distortion with defocusing. AR3053 is the major spot nearest the limb. AR3052 is the small pore to its west. Rather over-processed to bring out the detail in difficult conditions.

Thanks Pete.

Thanks Pete.

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!