July 15th - H Alpha - Clutching at Straws !!!

[paulastro]

Ok, I apologise, but this is my 28th day running observing the sun and taking some pics, so I was determined to get something today.  I also was out for the day so didn't have much time.  All the pics were taken through cloud earlier this morning.  I don't feel quite so guilty posting them as currently no-one else has posted an HA disk today, unless I missed it.  All taken at 7.15 am +/- a couple of minutes with the Lunt 60 DS and Olympus E-M10 at 500 asa and exposures of between 1/6 and 1/13 sec.  There were two reasonable prominences, (one it the W and one in the E) but they don't show up on these images.

 

 

 

[xtreemchaos]

great result under horrible conditions paul, ive been sulking all day with the darn cloud. no whitelight then . well done and the run continues.thanks  charl.

[paulastro]

Many thanks charl.  Sorry about your cloud, I wander what's happened to the big spot since yesterday?  I'm just added another pic showing the position of the prominences.

[Ibbo!]

clouds clouds and clouds for me

well caught

[laudropb]

Well done Paul on number 28. Rained here all day so no chance of a view.

[Pete Presland]

A very very respectable image considering the conditions Paul, I think you must be the "Zen master" of Solar imaging in awful conditions

[Davey-T]

Nicely done Paul, still waiting for a cloud free day.

Dave

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

I admire your tenacity. You keep battling the conditions and getting yet another very nice set of images.

[cshahar]

Paul, still enough details to get a sense of what is going on with the sun, for us buggers who have been clouded-out.

-Charles

[paulastro]

13 hours ago, bunnygod1 said:

A very very respectable image considering the conditions Paul, I think you must be the "Zen master" of Solar imaging in awful conditions

Many thanks Pete, I'll take that as a compliment - I think .  Of course, it may just be that other folk have more sense than to attempt imaging in such rotten conditions!  Another factor may be that I always do a disk drawing from my images to put in my observing book, so it doesn't matter so much if they are pretty pictures (though it's nice if I ever get any!!!)  as long as I can capture the features to put on the drawing.  Zen master, mmm, it makes it sound as if I know what I'm doing, I like it!! 

[paulastro]

12 hours ago, michael.h.f.wilkinson said:

I admire your tenacity. You keep battling the conditions and getting yet another very nice set of images.

That's very kind of you Michael, thank you.

[paulastro]

7 hours ago, cshahar said:

Paul, still enough details to get a sense of what is going on with the sun, for us buggers who have been clouded-out.

-Charles

Many thanks Charles.  I hope you are having better luck today.  I'm away from home without my equipment and the sun is threatening to come out, aaarrrggghhhh, it's torture!  I'm hoping I may get some sun later this afternoon when I get home.

[David Smith]

28 days on the trot, I think Paul is fibbing  to us about his location and actually lives in Arizona Seriously though good effort Paul.

[paulastro]

That made me chuckle David, , I wish I did!  Thank you.