Solar Saturday - May 14th

[David Smith]

Mixed fortunes today. Made an early start to try and catch the forecast gap and make the most of any decent seeing. Cloudy when I got up! Did clear off just before 8am though and I quickly rattled off 130 WL frames for stacking later and then grabbed all the Ca-K data I wanted. Clouds then put a stop on things and I went in to process what I had. WL data would not stack at all, probably due to poor seeing from the looks of the data. Ca-K data processed fine though.

A little later the clouds broke again and I was waiting with the PST, Laptop and QHY for another mosaic. Clouds came back after that but I did manage to find another clear bit later to grab some more white light data but even using the laptop to focus the camera I struggled. Visually the Sun was boiling and shifting pretty much constant and consequently my final image is still quite poor.

White Lights - probably best not to open at full res

Ca-K from this morning. These came out fine so seeing must have settled.

8 Pane mosaic @ 2500mm FL

Proms at 1000mm FL

H Alpha 23 pane Mosaic @900mm FL

Prom @ 900mm FL

[Bizibilder]

An excellent collection,  especially in today's conditions.

[xtreemchaos]

great full set Dave,lovely detail as allways,wow that new spots a cracker, ive a chance tomorrow morning if i get up early to beat the cloud. thanks charl.

[David Smith]

Thanks guys.

@xtreemchaos Forecast shows clear here between 6 and 9am tomorrow here so will be another early start for me too

[laudropb]

Very nice set David. Been clear here all day and at times the seeing was pretty good.

[bish]

Nice set. Keep up the good work!

 

 

[Davey-T]

Nice set of images David, it's a bit of a consolation to know the seeing was probably rubbish as I had cloud all day

Dave

[Lowjiber]

Nice work all around, David.

Thanks for sharing all of those.

Clear Skies

[Pete Presland]

Excellent collection of images. 

[paulastro]

That's  a wonderful set of images David, really top notch, thanks.