AR2785 & New Big Spot and Looping Prominence!, Discs | Nov 23rd 2020

[MalVeauX]

Hey all,

Woke up to a non-cloudy day, rare for me lately with the storms. Anyhow, took a chance on the seeing and it was poor to average so worked with the 120mm aperture. AR2783 persists and is still an interesting region, but AR2785 and it's neighboring new big spot has taken the show! There's a nice hedge prominence near by and big filament under it, along with small surge prominences shooting up from the region. But most interesting is the faint looping prominence over the region!

B&W:

Colored:

Equipment:

120mm F10 Refractor
80mm F7.5 Refractor
Baader Red CCD-IR Block Filter (Primary internal 50mm DERF)
PST Etalon (HA)
Lunt B1200 CaK (CaK)
10mm HA BF (HA & WL)
ASI183MM Camera
ASI290MM Camera

Very best,

Edited November 23, 2020 by MalVeauX

[Luke]

Sweet! Nice bit of activity this morning! Nice to see those stumpy "horns" behind the big spot. I didn't spot any loops at the eyepiece earlier on. You're much younger than I imagined you.

Edited November 23, 2020 by Luke

[Sunshine]

On 23/11/2020 at 12:13, MalVeauX said:

Hey all,

Woke up to a non-cloudy day, rare for me lately with the storms. Anyhow, took a chance on the seeing and it was poor to average so worked with the 120mm aperture. AR2783 persists and is still an interesting region, but AR2785 and it's neighboring new big spot has taken the show! There's a nice hedge prominence near by and big filament under it, along with small surge prominences shooting up from the region. But most interesting is the faint looping prominence over the region!

B&W:

Colored:

Equipment:

120mm F10 Refractor
80mm F7.5 Refractor
Baader Red CCD-IR Block Filter (Primary internal 50mm DERF)
PST Etalon (HA)
Lunt B1200 CaK (CaK)
10mm HA BF (HA & WL)
ASI183MM Camera
ASI290MM Camera

Very best,

Your solar images are an inspiration my friend, I wish to reach your level of technical prowess imaging the sun, I have decided after much going back and forth that I would love to give a daystar quark a shot. If I may please pick your brain regarding my intended setup it would be great. I have a 115mm triplet (I’m aware triplet has no benefit for solar)  , I assume I’ll need an IR cut filter on my diagonal, is this correct? do you feel that my my 115-805mm FL won’t provide full disc views, for this I would need a very short FL scope which can be acquired for cheap in the future if I want. Regarding the two models, chromo and prom, I can’t afford both but do you feel the chromo offers decent prom detail for imaging/visual? I understand I can’t have best of both. Are there any other accessories you can suggest which will enhance my experience considering my intended scope/quark setup? a mono camera will follow closely but, I’ll ask questions about that when the time comes. 
 

thank you! I’m stoked about this.

[Mark at Beaufort]

3 hours ago, Sunshine said:

Your solar images are an inspiration my friend, I wish to reach your level of technical prowess imaging the sun, I have decided after much going back and forth that I would love to give a daystar quark a shot. If I may please pick your brain regarding my intended setup it would be great. I have a 115mm triplet (I’m aware triplet has no benefit for solar)  , I assume I’ll need an IR cut filter on my diagonal, is this correct? do you feel that my my 115-805mm FL won’t provide full disc views, for this I would need a very short FL scope which can be acquired for cheap in the future if I want. Regarding the two models, chromo and prom, I can’t afford both but do you feel the chromo offers decent prom detail for imaging/visual? I understand I can’t have best of both. Are there any other accessories you can suggest which will enhance my experience considering my intended scope/quark setup? a mono camera will follow closely but, I’ll ask questions about that when the time comes. 
 

thank you! I’m stoked about this.

Hello @SunshineI maybe totally wrong on this but I think you need to check that a triplet is okay to use without some form of protection to the front objective. If the triplet is cemented together the heat of the Sun could damage the objective before it reaches IR cut filter and quark.

I appreciate that someone may reply and state I am talking rubbish but I would check just in case.

[tooth_dr]

Fantastic collection of photos. I like the one with your daughter doing the classic ‘thumbs up’ pose 👍🏻