3.4.2020 AR12759

[Rusted]

Gales, clouds and soft seeing:

Large, disturbed area with triple spot near western border.

[Rusted]

Further images:

The triple spot is splitting and throwing off filaments.

[Davey-T]

Well caught, all that sunny weather recently and nothing to see now a nice AR and flippin clouds 

Dave 

[Rusted]

Thanks Dave. The seeing was poor all day here. Cloud variable.

Seven hours, largely wasted, trying to capture mush.

[Dinsdale Piranha]

I would love to get mush like that.

Lovely detail captured, nice to see the changes between the sets of images.

Thanks

DP

[Rusted]

Thank you for your encouragement DP.

It is always surprising how rapidly features change on the sun.

While my images may look superficially detailed they don't give the impression of looking down from a spacecraft.
Many skilled imagers manage this trick repeatedly. While I continue to struggle up the steep learning curve of image processing.

My having a 150mm or 6" f/10 refractor is very demanding of seeing conditions.
A larger instrument inevitably has higher magnifications [image scale] at the camera due to its greater focal length.

Daytime seeing is usually much poorer than night time.
Simply because the "big heater in the sky" isn't making the atmosphere tremble with convection currents.

In good seeing conditions I can see incredible detail "live" on my large imaging monitor.
It doesn't need "lucky imaging" to bring out all this detail.
At the live video capture stage and first alignment in Autostakkert the detail is already there.
The images in this thread needed the processing to see anything interesting at at all.

[Pete Presland]

A nice looking cycle 25 spot, pretty much gone today unfortunately.