The Sun in Ca-K - 16th Nov 2019

[David Smith]

The Mercury transit sparked a bit of a renewal of my enthusiasm for solar imaging, just in time for the Sun to move out of reach in the next couple of weeks! So when the clouds parted briefly earlier I made the most of it and grabbed a quick FD with the Bresser. Nice little plage area on show as well as a fair sized prom too. Would have liked to get some close ups of the plage area with the Evostar but the clouds soon came back. The Bresser comes in to it's own on days like today where I have a short gap between the clouds to grab what I can, 2 x 1000 frame SER files later (about 15 seconds each) and I have both surface and prom layers ready to go! I did take a look at the WL disk but there was nothing to see.

[Pete Presland]

Good to see a Ca-K disc again David, hopefully next year might see an increase in activity.