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A quick heads up as I haven't seen a mention on here. I've just noticed that there are now apps for Telescopius for both iOS and Android. It looks like they've been out for two or three weeks. You can log in using your existing account and all your details appear to be synced over. Very nice.

The sun this afternoon and still a fair bit of sunspot activity. This is a 20 second .avi stacked and with the ND1000000 filter

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The sun this morning. From a 20 second RAW AVI with the best 50% stacked. Also using an ND1000000 filter.

51 minutes ago, Icesheet said:

Amazing! It’s like an Aurora waterfall. You should definitely enter this one in the landscape challenge 👍

Can I ask how you managed to stitch it? My bro in law has something similar but can’t get his to stitch completely. Obviously, could be due to other issues but would be interested to hear what you did. 

Thank you! I stitched the raw files in Affinity Photo 2 and then exported the result. I’ve tried other programs to stitch in the past but, for me anyway, Affinity seem to do it as well as anything else.

2 hours ago, WolfieGlos said:

That's superb.

I didn't think a panorama was possible since the arcs of light move...but 16 individual shots prove me wrong!

A lot of shortish exposures fired off in the general direction to be honest. Probably around twenty in total and then just finding the right stitch of those. 

This is one I’ve been working on for the last day or two. It’s a panorama of sixteen shots stitched together and gives a view of the full arc and zenith of the Aurora as seen last Friday evening looking south east to south west. I still can’t believe what I saw myself…..

The Glendale folk also have a Telegram account which gives real time updates. Here’s some from the weekend:

46 minutes ago, glafnazur said:

These are some of the best images of the aurora from Friday night, thanks for sharing.

Thank you!

The aurora from the night of the 10th of May and looking south east over Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A single shot with the foreground lightened. There's even a shooting star (I think) in the top left corner.....

Sony A7III + Viltrox f1.8 16mm. 5 seconds at f2.8, ISO 400. 

A few from the evening of the 10th and early morning of the 11th. An absolutely spectacular display, mostly in the east to south east of the skies but at some times the full 360 degrees were lit up. Huge columns and arcs for over two hours. The first image has the moon setting to the west.

The sun this morning at around 10:30. Seestar S50 with an ND100000 filter. No editing apart from a crop.

More info about the sunspot: https://www.space.com/carrington-rival-sunspot-ar3664-x-flare-eruption-video

Here's a comparison of images of the sun this morning. The first is taken using the supplied ZWO Solar filter and the second using an ND1000000 filter. Both images are straight from  the Seestar via the app with the only editing being a crop.

The ND100000 filter is a Neewer NANO 55mm threaded camera filter attached with an adapter from OakAstro which I found on Etsy.

Today’s sun at midday. Plenty of CME activity apparently going on today. A couple of shots straight out of the box.

56 minutes ago, Beardy30 said:

Nice images . Has anyone noticed how improvements kick in after any particular time /exposures time - I have certainly noticed everyone it doubles it improves 10/20/40/80 etc ..what have others experienced?

Ta. I haven't done any longer than 25 seconds to be fair but I'm guessing that there must be a threshold depending on the subject. With the sun/moon being relatively bright compared to other targets then they wouldn't require as much time(?).

Last night's moon. 28% waxing. The image on the left is a single shot whilst the second is a stacked image taken from a 25 second avi.

10 minutes ago, WiltsStarGazer said:

Wow, nice close up, is it a stacked and processed video?

The first is a single RAW exposure. The second one is a video stack using the 4x zoom in the app 👍🏼

Easter midday Sun-day.

14 hours ago, Beulah said:

Ah stunning. Airglow is very apparent in the second image. 🙂

Zodiacal light is present too at the moment - about an hour after sunset. Look to the west. It will be very easy to capture under those dark skies.

I was over for the week and this, not unsurprisingly, was about the only clear early night that I had! Many thanks for the information though 👍🏼

On the Isle of Skye last week. The dark skies really do make the stars sparkle. Both of these are single shots - 15 seconds at ISO 640 using a Sony A7III and a Viltrox 16mm at f1.8.

This is the core of the Heart Nebula - IC1805 - from last night. 20 minutes of 10 second shots stacked with an L-extreme filter.

19 hours ago, Pete Presland said:

Superb images, very nicely captured. I got a fleeting view of these and as has been said they around for a few days .

Many thanks!

On 28/12/2023 at 04:23, MKHACHFE said:

Nice. Lucky you that you got to see them. They have been making lots of appearances this last week. 

 

Nice photos too

Thank you. Yes, we a few days last week were they were present, like others. Quite spectacular to see, especially if you have polarised sunglasses!!

I can’t remember seeing Nacreous clouds so clear and intense as they were on Sunday. They were present for pretty much all of the day but were at their most spectacular around sunrise and sunset.

I’m pretty sure Station mode only works on the 2.4G frequency.