The Sun - 5th Aug 2015

[David Smith]

Clear at 07:00 this morning so another brief opportunity to grab some data. Clouded over not long after 07:30. My best white light for a few days as the clear bit arrived a little later today allowing the Sun to get a bit of altitude.

20150805 by David Smith, on Flickr

20150805mono by David Smith, on Flickr

20150805_CaK_FD by David Smith, on Flickr

[xtreemchaos]

great images mate,great detail as allways,nice ca-k.thanks for posting charl.

[MarsG76]

Looks great. I like the calcium K image most, but all look great.

[JamesF]

Cracking CaK again David.  You're doing really well with that.

James

[Ewan]

Dave stop it................your making me feel I need a Ca-K filter now   :grin:  

Nice bottom left grouping & your Ca-K filter seems to show it's pretty active, must try to grab that soon.

Nice grabs Dave

[1parsec]

Excellent set of images.  Seeing your regular Ca-K images is making my wallet twitch too 

[Luke]

Lovely images, David, glad you could catch the later rays. Especially loving the CaK shots, my wallet is hiding under the sofa

I was kinda hoping you'd go Quark first but I have to say these are cracking images

[Ewan]

My minds made up.........a 152mm & full ERF is my next wallet mucher but tell me Dave supplier / cost of your new filter as I am seriously thinking of getting that too.

PS my wife said 'Thanks Dave !!!'  LMAO no T for me

[laudropb]

Lovely images yet again. Thanks for posting.

[DrRobin]

Another great set David.

Robin

[David Smith]

Thanks all. You are very kind where in reality I have barely scratched the surface with the new Ca-K module. I have yet to get a decent day when I can really experiment with the setup and capture. Hopefully this means there is still more to come. Certainly there is potential in doing close-ups just based on the limited experience I have using it.

Lovely images, David, glad you could catch the later rays. Especially loving the CaK shots, my wallet is hiding under the sofa

I was kinda hoping you'd go Quark first but I have to say these are cracking images

It was a tough call between Quark and new scope for better H alpha, and the CaK module but in the end questions over quality of Quarks lead me to where I am. That and the fact everyone is doing high res H alpha these days and very few CaK images which I have loved for a long time.

There is a good chance that a Quark will be on the shopping list in the future but likely will not be until Q2 2016 now. Hopefully by then Quark quality issues will be resolved and I will be able to buy with confidence.

My minds made up.........a 152mm & full ERF is my next wallet mucher but tell me Dave supplier / cost of your new filter as I am seriously thinking of getting that too.

PS my wife said 'Thanks Dave !!!'  LMAO no T for me

Sorry about your T Ewan . Between you and me, the diminutive nature of the Ca-K module is fairly easy to sneak in . When asked what I had bought now, I simply replied "oh, just a diagonal for my scope" which seemed innocent enough   Where as in fact it cost the equivalent of a Quark and a new scope as mentioned above.

As an authorised Lunt dealer the good folk @ FLO sourced my Ca-K module for me and at a very competitive price. I had to make a specific inquiry but they are now listed on their website. I went for the B1200 version to give me greater flexibility and so I could use it with the stopped down Evostar, otherwise I would have had to go for a new scope too.

Glad your enjoying the images and my apologies to all the chief financial officers out there!

[Montana]

Fantastic couple of images, there are some nice active regions at the moment :)

Alexandra

[Pete Presland]

Good to catch up on some of the older white lights while i have been away, it shows how the large AR has developed.