Saturdays Sun - Ha Full Disk 15th October

[markt]

Woke up this morning to beautifully clear skies and after setting up enjoyed some fantastic white light and Ha views - the seeing through the 5" with the Lunt wedge was absolutely great! I decided to image and went for the WL first off; to my horror, in the time it had took me to get kitted up for imaging and get a view on screen the seeing has just disintegrated - it was awful, difficult to focus, granulation no longer visible, it could only mean one thing - cloud was imminent. Like clockwork, despite most of the UK being free from cloud, a large patch of cloud had formed and was pretty stationary over my house It took several hours before it broke for long enough for me to image, however by then the sun had descended into the trees and rooftops of the cityscape...

The giant proms that were visible earlier in the week have long since gone, however a few smaller ones were visible where the 2 bands of solar activity coincided with the limb. One took the form of a small filaprom. The disk is alive with activity though - active regions and their associated spots, and filaments galore. It's pretty tricky to get an effective 'one shot' of the disk and proms with all these bright active regions wanting to saturate the chip on the DMK31. Anyway, here's todays disk! Hope it's sunny where you are, and if it is go out and observe el-sol, you wont be disappointed!

ha full disk by Mark Townley, on Flickr

[foundaplanet]

Great to see what I was looking at through my scope in such magnificent detail..

What a fantastic image..

[markt]

Thanks! The sun was certainly busy today!

[Photosbykev]

Nice to see what I missed after spending 10 hours in C3 protective clothing lol

I need a shower!

[smerral]

Wow! Loads of activity! Your experience with the clouds sounds very familiar! But that's a great image.

[markt]

Thanks folks! Clody again this morning, so no solar today unless it brightens up rapidly...

[Photosbykev]

I hate it when it gets Clody (chuckle)

[markt]

Lol, yeah, boring grey clods everywhere atm. May be a brighter patch in the west, but got a feeling it has a good dose of haze to go with it...

[King]

Very polished! I never seem to have much fortune with full disc mosaics. I tend to get imperfections; probably due to an inferior equipment setup or something?

The Sun certainly is putting on a show lately!

[sheri_barri]

Another superb disk! Well done!

[Cschur]

Excellent work Mark, and a story that sounds way too familiar with me...

[smerral]

You can keep coming back to this one as it really is amazingly detailed. the cloud experience is a familar one. The other day I had a thin strip of cloud that resolutely refused to budge despite the rest of the sky being clear!

[SeedyF]

that is absolutely fantastic! You make up for the fact that I dont have my own HA filter by posting stunning images that show me what I am missing.

Thanks