Sun - 21/04/12

[Viv]

Inspired by Rik's image this morning, there was a quick (& I mean very quick) break in the clouds.

Just had my camera, 400mm lens & 2 x convertor (obviously with baader solar paper), then slightly cropped end picture.

Thanks.

[RikM]

Very nice It's tipping down with rain here now

[sheri_barri]

So nice to see! Raining here..... :-(

[malc-c]

Really nice image there... I tried with a webcam, but the constant clouds passing over resulted in poor stacks (like 10 frames out of a 1000) - not really happy with the results, but with such a display of spots just had to try and grab something whilst the weather is so dire !

[Viv]

Thanks all.

Malc - you were lucky to get those (nice though), think I had 5 min max - so no way enough to get scope stuff out ............

Did like to see that tyre track pattern.

[malc-c]

Malc - you were lucky to get those (nice though), think I had 5 min max - so no way enough to get scope stuff out ............

I was lucky, we had more showers here than rain, so I was able to open the observatory and shoot video between the showers, but the clouds never seemed to stop rolling past the sun when viewed on the monitor..

I think your shot, given the short window you had is excellent.

[iwatkins]

Really nice shot Scarlet

Same here today, 1 min of sun, 10 mins of cloud, 2 mins of hail and repeat.

Cheers

Ian

[Stu]

Very nice shots. I enjoyed the grouping of tiny spots in the centre today. Showed lots of detail in the PST.

Stu

[Viv]

Thanks guys.

Think i'll be very tempted with a PST / Lunt next year. Should image that was amazing to look at.

[Montana]

Very good!

Strange region in the middle, looks like a kiss

Alexandra