Sol in Ha - 2018-05-06

[PhotoGav]

Continuing my journey of trying to image with the 10" Thomas Cooke refractor, built in 1860, at the Marlborough College Blackett Observatory, today I turned my attention to the Sun. The observatory has a Daystar University Hydrogen Alpha filter, so I put that on the scope and let it warm up. I was rather impressed with the results!

First up, a combo of disk and limb with prominence:

I then looked around the disk for AR 2708 - not sure if this is really it, but it might be!

 

To finish, here's a pic of the set-up in action:

 

I'm very happy with the way the first session went and look forward to further opportunities soon.

Clear skies all!

[Davey-T]

Lovely images and great scope Gav 

I couldn't find that AR yesterday using the Quark, no spots anyway.

Dave

[Davey-T]

Perhaps you could piggy back the LS50 on it 

Dave

[Sunshine]

A 10 inch frac, i would love it, but, it may overwhelm my GP mount.

[Pete Presland]

Doing the scope proud!

[Lowjiber]

Great shots, Gav.  What a scope!  I'll bet that's fun to use.

Thanks for the images and pic of the scope.

Clear Skies