13th March Solarscope Sunday

[Montana]

The day dawned to clear sky but by 9am it was cloudy and I could see on Sat24 everyone else had clear skies and has done all day (in England). I was cursing a bit but at 1pm the skies suddenly cleared to a pale blue and I was able to get the Solarscope out. The seeing was very nice, the SSM indicated an average of around 1- 1.5 and the view through the scope didn't disappoint too but the light levels were very variable because of the haze. I am really surprised I managed a full disc with not too many joins. This was taken with a 1.6x Barlow and the Grasshopper 3. Actually the image looks very nice if you go back to Flickr and click on the image as this is the only way to see the detail in this forum.

B&W https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexandra4/25733854116/in/photostream/

Colour https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexandra4/25133333233/in/photostream/

2016-03-13 Solar full disc by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

2016-03-13 Solar full disc f colour by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

and a prominence

130316_150232 by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

and I liked the ring shaped filament

130316_142108 f colour by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

All taken with Solarscope DSF100 / 1.6x Barlow / Grasshopper 3

Alexandra

[Uplooker]

Hi Alexandra,

Brilliant images as usual, with lovely processing. I was hoping to get my TAL/PST out today but the clear skies didn't materialise. The full disk is a cracking image

[David Smith]

The world is a better place for your images

[xtreemchaos]

great set Alexandra , fantastic colour and detail mate,well done .thanks for sharing   charl.

[Peter Drew]

Lovely images!. Good seeing here but the haze reduced the contrast visually.

[Montana]

Thanks guys, it was great to get a full disc again. Pity the haze was bad as the seeing was great, never mind, life is never perfect. It was a lovely spring day though

Alexandra

[bish]

Excellent images. I was looking through a scope with HA filter earlier today and that big prominence looked amazing. Thanks for sharing.

[laudropb]

Terrific set of images.

[The Head Gardener]

Absolutely gorgeous, thank you for sharing.

If it makes you feel any better, the forecasts fibbed and it wasn't clear everywhere, fairly dull most of the day around here.

Jayne

[DrRobin]

Way to go Alexandra, nice to have you back imaging.

Robin

[Hyperion76]

superb images

[dazzaa1966]

Fantastic images Alexandra. I don't expect anything less from you. 

[Macavity]

Amazing resolution. A wonderful template to work

towards for the (this!) aspiring image processer!

 

[Montana]

Thanks everyone  looks like another great day, pity I am at work

Alexandra