February 19, 2016: Nice little H-alpha session

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

I had the SolarMax-II 60 DS out again during lunch, this time with the box of fixed focal length EPs rather than the usual zoom. I wanted to test the new 14mm Delos, and the image was lovely. Lots of fine detail was visible even at this modest magnification. A few nice proms stood out from the south-western limb. A series of whorls, filaments, and plage areas studded th enorthern half of the disk. One filament in particular circled the big sunspot currently visible. There was also a nice filaprom to the north-east. The XW10 and Delos 8mm also gave great images at 40x and 50x respectively.

 

[lunator]

Michael

I got to have a look earlier today and saw those features.

Funnily enough the best view I get through the PST is with a 14mm eyepiece.

Cheers

Ian