Sol 20-1-16. 10.00

[xtreemchaos]

what a lovely sunny morrning, but seeing not great theres a lot of mist about and sols doing a little dance but it should get better as the day moves on. taken with ED80 2XED barlow,450d. 50/500 frames,iso200. thanks for looking, clear skys charl.

[laudropb]

Glad someone is getting the sun. Still pouring rain here.

[xtreemchaos]

thanks laudropb, hope you get some clear sky soon mate.  charl.

[David Smith]

Thanks for the view Charl. Sunny here now (after a foggy start) but I am stuck at work

[Montana]

Terrific shot :)

How come everyone has a sunny day apart from me and Scotland?

Alexandra

[xtreemchaos]

thanks Dave, weve still got a bit of foggy-mist about ,i took some more shots at 11.30 and the where worse than the 1st lot. clear skys charl.

[David Smith]

I think it's worse when it is sunny and I'm stuck at work. At least if it's cloudy it doesn't hurt  

[xtreemchaos]

thanks Alexandra,hope it clears for you. charl

[Purplehayze104]

been the best day in aggggggees here an im stuck at work, think im gunna bring the baby lunt to work, but if I do that will be cloudy lol rock an hardplace grrr, but great shots mr chaos not much happening by looks of it.

[Drop Of Sun]

Nice one, Charl, thanks for the view.

How come everyone has a sunny day apart from me and Scotland?

Alexandra

No joy here either, the cloud just hung around all day despite the sunny forecast  

But that's because my Quark is back from the States and needs testing! Well I say it's back, the casing is different, so it may be a replacement unit or replacement casing. It's going to be cloudy for weeks   

[xtreemchaos]

thanks Drop of sun, glad you have your Quark back and hope you get some clear skys soon.charl.

[Pete Presland]

Nice sharp disc.

[xtreemchaos]

thanks John, take a chance and take it to work mate. clear skys charl.

[xtreemchaos]

thanks Pete, no luck today,100% cloud here. clear skys charl.

[Drop Of Sun]

thanks Drop of sun, glad you have your Quark back and hope you get some clear skys soon.charl.

Thanks, Charl! I got some clear yesterday. Unfortunately I am not happy with my replacement Quark. I am so disappointed with it, I think longer term I may look at Lunt and full disc now.

[xtreemchaos]

Drop of sun- sorry to hear that mate,i too am looking at lunts,i fancy the 50 and its not too pricey at under £900 new with the 600 BF and later if needed you can add the double stax system, all i need now is to save the money "thats the hard part". charl.

[Drop Of Sun]

I think it might be Lunt 50 for me too, I'd love a Lunt 100 but it's way over budget, the 50 looks a nice balance of aperture to cost.

[xtreemchaos]

yer the 100 thats the stuff what dreams are made of, but who knows in a few years thay might come into our price range, the 60s are cool but there £1600  too much for me. charl.

[paulastro]

Thanks for the images Charl.  I hope you get another chance soon, the ARs on the Sun are developing nicely - look forward to a pic from you!.

Drop of Sun - I'm sorry your replacement Quark has not worked out.  I had three before I got one which was as it should be.  Having said that, the first two were very good, but had some issues which needed them to be returned.  One of them was better than the spec and showed more detail - but alas only on half the field as it had banding.  I was sorely tempted to keep it!  My third was 100% but I sold it to help fund my Lunt DS.  The reason was out of the two types of views they give, I fell in love with a DS system and find the rich contrasty whole disk views irresistible!  It would be nice to have kept the Quark as well but if I had it would have had little use in comparison with the DS because of the grab and go nature of my solar observing.  In the last few months many of my sessions have been less than five minutes and some less than two minutes.  Time enough for a photo if I get out of the house quickly and don't drop anything or fall over running up the steps at the back of the house!