Sun on 16 May

[MarkRadice]

Here's a close up of the sun from the 16th. Rather poor attempt at making a mosaic but some interesting prominences and sunspots around the edge.  I don't think we'll be seeing any today, alas!

These were caught through 60mm Lunt and ASI120MM camera from my garden observatory near Salisbury.  After setting up, I wondered why I could hardly see a thing on the laptop screen at my normal settings and needed exposures of 800 milliseconds with huge gain to capture anything meaningful.  I then realised I still had the 742nm pass filter from my lunar session, d'oh!

The seeing was pretty poor and not helped by passing cumulus clouds causing a break in play. 

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Some nice results there.

[MarkRadice]

Thanks, Michael.  Much more practice needed me thinks!