White light Sun, 28th March

[JamesF]

Spent ages this morning waiting for clouds to pass to try to get enough data for this. The seeing didn't seem too bad, but whilst there was a nice wide blue sky from the south west around to the north, the remainder of the sky had about 75% cloud cover. I'm not desperately happy with it, but under the circumstances it was the best I could manage. Totally clouded out now, so there's not much chance of another attempt for a while.

I took 120 frames of 1/1000th @ ISO100 with the 450D and 127 Mak, preprocessed with PIPP and dropped the worst 20 then stacked the best 50 of what was left in Registax v6. Then I noticed the dust bunny on the limb at about 11:30

James

[leelee970]

Very nice James, good to see someone out with their scope.

[Pig]

I almost got a picture today but the clouds were to fast for me here.

As soon as I get some decent breaks Ill be able to set the focus but i was limited to seconds earlier

[stargazerslivingroom]

I agree...very nice and much better than anything I achieved this morning. If you're referring to the rugby ball shape towards top left I can confirm I saw this too. I thought it was in the scope somewhere and was swopping bits to find it so am very pleased to see it on here!

Steve

[Steve Ward]

Nice one James ,

Hoping to get some in after lunch .

[Bizibilder]

Nice one - I was clouded out again today!!

[Montana]

Very nice, super clear! what a lovely baby region right in the middle, let's hope he grows

Alexandra

[DrRobin]

Nice capture James. We could do with some more sunspots for white light. You can see the new active region in the 9 o'clock position though. More coming I think?

Robin

[David Smith]

Nice work James. Clear here today but I was at work all day. Off work for 10 days now so no chance of seeing sun or stars for at least that long.