The Sun - 3rd June 2017

[David Smith]

Forecast was for clear sunny skies this morning, so I set my alarm more in hope than anticipation. Turns out the forecast was bang-on for a change! Not a cloud in the sky when I started the session, although it's looking a bit iffy now.

First Up WL FD - The usual 58 frames from 130, preprocessed in PIPP, stacked in R5.1 and finished in Gimp2.8

Then some white light close up's using my Revelation 2.5x barlow. Seeing was variable but had some really clear moments allowing me to capture some nice granulation.

Then on to Ca-K. 6 Pane FD @ 1000mm FL using 55 frames from 1000, shot with the QHY5-II mono. AS!2, ImPPG, Gimp2.8.

Then I found some proms. These were shot @1000mm FL too

And finally a nice close up of AR12661 with the Revelation barlow again

Can't remember the last time I had a good session like this!

[johnfosteruk]

Lovely set David. I've got a batch of awful data cooking atm. Terrible milky skies here.

[xtreemchaos]

great shots Dave, lovely detail as allways. I didn't see that prom at 2 oclockish earlier, great catch mate. thanks, charl.

[Davey-T]

Nice set David, bit of Sun here but been too busy all day to look at it.

Dave

[Bizibilder]

Very nice indeed!  About time the Sun came out to play properly for all of us!

[Pete Presland]

Nice set of images.