Sun Ha 26 March 2018

[laudropb]

Had a quick session in between the clouds. Nice prom group on W limb just above 3 o’clock. 4 other small proms around the disc but all quite faint. No major surface features.

[niallk]

 nice!

 here...

[Peter Drew]

Short session here before the clouds rolled in. View similar to your description, seeing not very good but at least seeing some Sun!  

[laudropb]

It’s always better than nothing Peter.

[Rusted]

Very cloudy here too in CET land, with only brief thinning and no serious blue stuff yet. Secondhand, Gravely Blighted weather!!

First white light trial with S-T binoviewers, 26mm Meade 4000s, no Barlow, on my Vixen 90 f/11 with Baader Solar Film, on driven FS MkIII.

Superb view and well worth the investment in the binoviewer and extra EPs despite lack of solar features.

No focusing range left for 45° or 90° diagonals so a bit of a neck breaker.

Watching clouds race cross behind the 3D sun is good fun. If you like that sort of thing.

H-alpha sun has one obvious, tall, vertical jet but nothing visible on the surface except the usual coarse graininess. [Still cyclops viewing.]

S-T 1.6x GPC-Barlow should be in the post today so I can start experimenting with that. Hoping for bino H-alpha before too long.

I'm blaming Peter for everything!