The Sun - 6th Jun 2014

[David Smith]

Well, activity has certainly ramped up over night / since yesterdays image. Good, steady seeing this morning (unlike last night but that's another story) and pretty much haze free as well. Shot 136, stacked 39.

20140606 by David_The_Bears_Fan, on Flickr

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Some very nice developments there, very nicely captured.

[JB80]

Ooh excellent, definitely a bit more happening.

Must put the scope out now the clouds are burning off.

[Steve Ward]

Super ... 

I wasn't putting much hope on the conditions as like you said it was pants last night , what a pleasant surprise to see things near static this morning ... 

[Montana]

Wow! where did all that come from overnight :)

Super blue sky here, wish I were at home

Alexandra

[Luke]

Ooooh, very nice :laugh:

Ditto re: conditions. There was me last night ready to test my new planetary filters with my Edge 8 and 120mm frac. I reckon a finderscope with no filter would almost have matched the other scopes last night... The view was poor without filter and poor with.

This morning, an unexpected half decent clear spell for solar, I am happy enough with the swap

[David Smith]

I was gutted last night. The first time I have been inspired to do a night shift in a few weeks (mostly due to bad weather to be honest) and the seeing was horrible. I got more from simply using the Mk1 eyeball than the big dob.

[Steve Ward]

I just spent the time out side with the binocular , seems to be the norm for me at the moment , still it saves all that fumbling around in the dark .... 

[David Smith]

Yes, mk 1 eyeball was good until cloud rolled in around 00:30.

[DrRobin]

Nice early image David.

Night time has been poor for me recently. I suspect an injection of cash and new equipment is required but Mrs DrRobin thinks otherwise. Still she isn't coming to IAS......

Robin

[David Smith]

Has she hidden your wallet?

[james_screech]

Nice image.

What technique do you use for focusing a DSLR on the Sun? I've been trying live view via APT and Nebulosity but have had problems.

James

[David Smith]

I just rough focus through the view finder and then fine tune it in live view. I don't have a laptop to connect to so all done at the camera. Takes a little practice and is very tricky when there are few or very small spots.