Sun In White Light 05-07-2013. 07:00+15:00 BST.

[Steve Ward]

Jumbled bag today , decent seeing first thing so I left the Mak180 on the mount and went in close , no time for the disc as well though so had to get what I could in very poor seeing this afternoon.

Full Disc , 15:00 BST , 23/80. Poor Seeing.

AR 11785 Close-up , 07:00 BST , 30/200 , Good Seeing.

AR 11785 Close-up , 15:00 BST , 7/80 , Poor Seeing.

1000D + ED80Pro / Mak180Pro + ND3.8 + 1.8 x Barlow + OIII.

Day by day album . . . http://www.astrobin....rs/steveward53/

[paulastro]

Fabulous pictures Steve. I looked at the sunspots this afternoon. The seeing was poor, as you might expect, but it still looked awesome. I took a snap with a compact camera at the eyepiece of a Megrez 90, not quite in the same league as yours, ha ha. Great to see your photos, thanks for posting them.

Best, Paul

[David Smith]

Nice Steve.

[Bizibilder]

That's very nice - and you had good seeing too. it's interesting to compare with my close-up at 16.10 today as you can see the changes in the spot structure between the images.

[Steve Ward]

I really want to spend a couple of hours taking AVI's every few minutes and then animate the resulting stacks , probably be an early morning exercise though ....

[DrRobin]

Super close ups both of those, but the early morning shot has more fine detail, due to the better seeing.

Robin

[Steve Ward]

Hi Robin ,

The second one didn't really warrant posting quality-wise , but put it in to compare the changes from morning to afternoon.

[allcart]

Yes, another vote for the early morning shots. They are like chalk and cheese. The early closeup is fantastic.

[JamesF]

Lovely images, especially the first AR close-up.

We had a totally overcast start to the day as we got off the ferry, but when we arrived here the Sun was blazing. I chose not to break out the scopes and cameras though as I don't think it would have gone down well

Weather forecast looks good for the next few days though, so I'm hoping to get some decent white light images and really put in some time on the PST as well as getting a some night time imaging done.

James

[DrRobin]

Hi Robin ,

The second one didn't really warrant posting quality-wise , but put it in to compare the changes from morning to afternoon.

On any normal day this would be a cracking shot, only because you got something better earlier on. It is interesting to see how it has changed, if anything it is more intricate in the afternoon, shame about the seeing.

Robin