Feb 10th PM, Flaring around AR 2497

[paulastro]

I went up to The Astronomy Centre this afternoon to use Peter Drew's 6 inch PST-Mod.  I wanted to try takings some pictures with my Olympus E-M5, which Peter kindly let me do.  As it would happen, some flaring activity started around 3.20pm and I managed to take some pics as it unfolded.  This was my first time taking surface detail with this setup so please excuse the rather uneven processing.

The pics below were all taken with the Olympus at 640 asa and were all on 1/400 sec, or within a stop of or so.    In order, the pics were taken at 3.04pm, 3.21pm, 3.37pm and 3.46pm.

 

[David Smith]

Nice images. Nice timing!

[Pete Presland]

A/R 2497 is developing very nicely well captured.

[paulastro]

Thanks chaps.  I'll have to figure out how to make the pics appear here much smaller, I didn't intend them to appear this big.  They are much better on a smaller scale!

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Nice captures

[Montana]

Well done you are lucky to have the Astronomy centre so close. I'd love to go there one day but it is a fair drive to go if it turns out cloudy.

Alexandra

[paulastro]

Thank Alexandra.  If you ever want to go and you think the weather looks as if it might be ok, PM me close to the time (say a  day before) and I could give you a last minute update before you are due to leave home.  You're right to be cautious as the weather can be rather changeable.