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Heya, Foggy this morning, no hopes for anything on my last day before returning to work. Late morning there was a patch of blue, so I scampered outside into the observatory and fired up the Edge. Seeing was ok. Not superb, but ok enough to push the imaging scale with the 8". I mainly wanted to get deep into AR2740 in red wavelength to see into the spot and not just around it and managed to get some material in there that is quite interesting. Then gathered some HA and tested the CaK waters a bit. I managed a little bit on AR2741, but the seeing didn't cooperate and clouds rolled in, so I didn't get past HA with it. Towards the end I lowered the imaging scale to get both spots and partial and full discs in HA & CaK. B&W: Colored: Equipment: C8 Edge HD + Aires Triband D-ERF *Daystar Quark Chromosphere + Baader UV/IR block + 0.5x FR + IMX174 (HA) *Baader 610nm + Baader ND1.8 + Baader UV/IR block + 2x Barlow + IMX174 (WL) *Baader Blue CCD-IR Block + 387+/-11nm + 393nm 1A + 2x Barlow + IMX174 (CaK) ST80 *Daystar Quark Chromosphere + Baader UV/IR Block + IMX174 (HA) *Masked to 40mmF10, Baader Blue CCD-IR Block + 387+/-11nm + 393nm 1A + IMX178 (CaK) Very best,

Heya, Had some ok weather last night so figured I'd collect some old photons. It's galaxy season still at least in the Northern hemisphere. Last night's subject was M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy and its companions in the group. Cropped FOV Full wide FOV uncropped Galaxies present in image that are visible and part of the M51 Group More information on my Astrobin for accquisition, gear, etc. https://astrob.in/404638/0/ https://astrob.in/404642/0/ 80mm F6 APO with a Canon T4i unmodified APS-C dSLR 3.1 hours of integration time 20 Flats, 20 Bias, Dithering Very best,

Heya, Woke up to fog and clouds, a little rain. But around 10:30am I had some low transparency but it was fairly bright, so I figured, why not try? I figured if nothing else I could at least take a look at small scale. While imaging, the seeing was ok, not great, moments were good, and clouds were passing, but as it got later and seeing fell apart, the clouds gave way a little more, still some clouds in the way, but manageable. Ultimately was not able to get good seeing for all three wavelengths, mostly suffered near noon when I finally got around to attempting white light and the seeing was gone by then, so I got soft results. But, managed to get some interesting stuff in HA & Cak earlier. B&W: Colored: Equipment: C8 Edge + Aires D-ERF + Baader UV/IR Block + Quark + 0.5x Focal Reducer + IMX174 (HA) ST80 + Baader UV/IR Block + Quark + IMX174 (HA) CR150HD (at 100mm F12) + Baader Blue CCD-IR Block + PST CaK #1 + Chroma 393 1A + 3x Barlow + IMX174 (CaK) ST80 (40mm F10) + Baader Blue CCD-IR Block + PST CaK #1 + Chroma 393 1A + IMX178 (CaK) Very best,

Good morning all, I'm off a few days, so I just knew the weather would be awful. To my surprise yesterday I had some sky time. This morning, the storms are here. There's lots of clouds and raining here and there. A big lightning storm just rolled through. I set up regardless and cracked the top of my observatory, a little tenacious defiance against the odds, that I might get a sucker hole at the very least. I was only out from 9am to 9:30am because it was just too nasty. Literally raining. But sometimes a tiny sucker hole passes through, with just enough transparency to get something. It was enough for me to at least focus briefly, but not critically. I didn't even have time for flat calibration. I captured a single 500 frame sequence over and over as the clouds passed, and sometimes I had to close the top of my observatory for drizzling rain. For the briefest 3 seconds, I managed to capture some data. I figured it was rubbish because there's clouds passing through the sequence. But, I tried anyways. Registax couldn't stack it. AS!3 stacked it though! I processed out the gradients & rings and ended up with a workable piece of 3 seconds of stacked data. Lovely prominence this morning near AR2740! I had no other time of course, and the rain then came. So this is all I was able to do. A single image from a single 3 second sequence of capture of 500 frames. I closed up and ran into my house at this point. It's now 10am and my electricity is flickering on/off and it's raging raining and with a bad lightning storm over head. 80mm F5 Refractor + Baader 2" UV/IR Block Filter + Quark Chromosphere (F21) + IMX174 Very best,

Hey all, Lots of clouds this morning and only ok seeing, but managed to get a little bit of AR2740 and the proms around it. It seems to have thrown some lovely surge proms later, but I'm clouded out for those. This was around 0930am Eastern when I captured these. Captured in HA, WL & CaK at various scales to compare as seeing allowed. Saw a little tiny flare activity around the spot. B&W: Colored: Equipment: C8 Edge + Aires Tri-Band D-ERF + Baader 2" UV/IR Block Filter *Daystar Quark Chromosphere + 0.5x Focal Reducer + IMX174 (HA, F21) *Baader 610nm Long Pass + Baader 6 stop ND + 2x Barlow + IMX174 (WL, F20) ST80 @ 80mm F5 + Baader 2" UV/IR Block Filter *Daystar Quark Chromosphere + IMX174 (HA, F21) ST80 @ 40mm F10 + Baader 2" UV/IR Block Filter (Full Disc HA) Daystar Quark Chromosphere + 0.5x Focal Reducer + IMX174 (HA, F21) ST80 @ 40mm F10 + Baader Blue CCD-IR Block Filter (Full Disc, CaK) Skybender + 395nm Block Filter + PST Cak Filter + Chroma 393 1A Filter + IMX178 (CaK, F10) Very best,