The Sun - 8th August 2020

[David Smith]

Too hot to sleep last night so was up early and out imaging not long after 7. Lots going on but the seeing was a little hit & miss to be honest. Ca-K and white light seemed to suffer the worst, I think the seeing actually settled a bit by the time I got to H alpha.

Start off with Ca-K, full disk via 6 pane mosaic @ native 1000mm of the Evostar 120, Prominence @2000mm and a 3 pane pano of the active regions shot at 2000mm focal length.

 

 

 

White light with the Lacerta wedge, continuum & UV/IR filter shot at 2000mm focal length.

 

 

H Alpha shot at 2000mm focal length with the Quark and ES 2x focal extender.

4 Pane mosaic of the active regions, proms on both sides of the disk with a 3 image series showing the evolution of the largest of them.

 

Evolution of this prom over 3 shots

 

 

[xtreemchaos]

Great shots David, i was fighting the cloud it didnt come clear here untill 1pm. lovely detail mate. charl.

[Altocumulus]

Good ones Dave - for me it was the other way around. Ca-K good, but by half-nine I was struggling with Ha - was only able to concentrate on the main spot....

No matter how hard I tried I couldn't see any proms - so well done on the Ca-K.....

 

[laudropb]

Lovely images David. The Ca-K really shows the other active regions very well.

[Hughsie]

I really like those David, especially the panoramic view of the AR’s.

 

John

[MarkAR]

Great images, really love the prom progression.

[Highburymark]

Love those prom shots - great work

[Ewan]

That's a pretty neat BIG set there fella 🙂

[Davey-T]

Great set David, looks like you got all there was to see.

Dave

[David Smith]

Thanks all. Positive comments are always nice  First time since I've had the Quark that I've had several hours of unbroken sunshine. Scope was out on the mount until lunch time and I spent quite a bit of time visually watching that prom and "fiddling" with the tuner on the Quark to see what I could see. Forecast doesn't look as good tomorrow but fingers crossed.

[Mick J]

Post gets better as you page down, nice work.

[Pete Presland]

Lovely set of images.