Sol in Ha - 2017-11-19

[PhotoGav]

The Sun came out this afternoon, behind a veil of hazy cloud, so I had a little play. Two new toys to test; an SSD installed in a caddy that slots in the place of the optical drive and a tilt adapter. The SSD worked a treat and my buffer write times after the capture were dramatically reduced and on occasion, eliminated. Very happy with that upgrade and at about £75 for a 240GB internal SSD, installed without major complications, I don't think that's bad at all! The tilt adapter was a little trickier and I eventually achieved focus and even reduced the Newton's Rings, but I couldn't eliminate them completely. I suffered from blobs on the sensor window, which are most evident in the close up. I spent most of the session cleaning things trying to get rid of the blobs. It was only after the Sun had gone behind the rose bush and I moved inside that I found where the blobs were and have now cleaned them off. Hopefully the next session will be less blobby!

As for that prominence, it looks like a kiwi to me, though I'm not sure if his long beak broke off between shots or just wasn't resolved in the close up?!

[Davey-T]

Excellent images Gav, Sun never came out from behind the cloud for long enough here.

Dave

[Pete Presland]

Lovely prom and filament, completely missed out again this weekend.

[xtreemchaos]

great shots Gav, deff looks kiwi to me too. thanks, charl.

[David Smith]

Nice shot. That's a good size filament.

[PhotoGav]

9 hours ago, David Smith said:

Nice shot. That's a good size filament.

Thanks David. That filament complex is huge. Looking on GONG, it has travelled across the disk and has a whole left side to it, making it look very much like a droopy handlebar moustache!! Unfortunately it has been wall to wall cloud here and looks set to continue like that for this week. Boo hoo.

[David Smith]

I know how you feel Gav, weather here hasn't been much better and when it has been sunny I've been at work

[Lowjiber]

Nicely done, Gav.  Thanks for the share.

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