The Sun - 16th May 2015

[David Smith]

Well after a slightly dodgy start to the day the skies cleared with broken cloud and some decent size gaps.

First up the usual white lights taken with Evostar 120 / 1100D combo. 50 from 150 frames stacked in Registax 5.1.

20150516 by David_The_Bears_Fan, on Flickr

20150516mono by David_The_Bears_Fan, on Flickr

Had some time to play with the new Revelation 0.5x reducer. I found that if I stack the filters I normally use between the QHY5 and the reducer I can get a full disk in one frame. By the time I got to try this the seeing had dropped off pretty badly so the image is nothing to shout about but proves the point and there is a longer term purpose to this......more on that later

20150516WL by David_The_Bears_Fan, on Flickr

Then came another nice long break in the clouds so I broke out the PST. Took several avi's, 4 of which I used to make a mosaic

20150516HA_Disk by David_The_Bears_Fan, on Flickr

Still some work to do as there are some newton rings left despite the flats but think this is probably my best mosaic yet.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice set. I managed no more than a quick look, but no imaging. Lots of activity at the moment

[Bizibilder]

Glad you found a gap!  A very nice set of images.

[dazzaa1966]

Great images David

[slim80]

Nice work david.I also picked up some good white light shots of the sun today.Still trying to convince the other half that a PST or a LUNT is a must have tool

..She aint having none of it atm lol

[Luke]

Very nice collection, David :laugh:

I managed to sneak in both h-a and white light for once

[Pete Presland]

Very sharp images!