The Sun

[ursamajorro]

I want to show you some images with the Sun, in white light, taken during my "career" of amateur astrophotographer. The majority of the photos was taken with my dSLR camera Canon 550D. I only recently replaced (from taking videos) the dSLR with the webcam (Microsoft Lifecam Studio and 6000HD). As imaging scopes, I used achromat refractors, as Bresser 70/700 Skylux, so called Lidlscope and Skywatcher 90/900, but reflectors (little Mak 127/1500), too.

So, the oldest...

[ursamajorro]

The newest...

[Montana]

A beautiful set Ursa, I love the bird transit the most, it's difficult to get them so clear, I just get fuzzy blobs as they tend to be too close. Looks like some kind of Falcon? the transit of Venus is fab too

Alexandra

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Nice collection. I would say the bird is a falcon or perhaps a harrier of some kind

[ursamajorro]

Thank you very much, Alexandra! I have an animated gif with that bird. See it here (the file is too big to be attached here).

[JamesF]

Gorgeous. Look forward to seeing more.

James

[Bizibilder]

Very good -keep posting!

[GreatAttractor]

Good work. I encourage you to try sunspot animations (when seeing is very good), from what I see on your blog Mak 127 + Lifecam will do fine.

[sologuitarist61]

Very good, thanks for sharing!

[ursamajorro]

Thanks!

Good work. I encourage you to try sunspot animations (when seeing is very good), from what I see on your blog Mak 127 + Lifecam will do fine.

I plan to do it first time when I'll go for observations during the day. From my balcony (from where I took all my Sun videos) the turbulence is too big to hope to record a good resolution of the Sun granulation and of the sunspots.

[ursamajorro]

Why I can't edit my previous post?

[JamesF]

Why I can't edit my previous post?

People have abused the post editing feature in the past, so it's now restricted until you have made 50 posts, I believe.

James

[ursamajorro]

Ah, OK! Thank you!

[jimao22]

I have 101 posts and I still cannot edit my posts. Is there anything special I should know? Where is the Edit button?

[JamesF]

For me it appears down at the bottom right of the post, next to the "multiquote" and "quote" buttons.

James

[Montana]

I've got 1,500 posts and I can't edit! you get 15 minutes to edit after posting, that is all.

Alexandra

[JamesF]

Ah, yes, that's a good point. There is a time-limit on editing too.

James

[ursamajorro]

It's rainy here, so, I post old Sun images...

[farunj]

That's an amazing set of images! Love the bird transit!

[bottletopburly]

Nice shot with the bird

[ursamajorro]

Thank you very much.

[ursamajorro]

Oops, seven years... it's a long time. But i have some pics more recent with the Sun.

[ursamajorro]

Some pics taken from my balcony.

[ursamajorro]

Today... Sun with ED72.

For compliance, photo from spaceweather.com.

[ursamajorro]

Another and better processed video.