Belated Solar FD from the 26th, 27th, and 29th November 2020

[Nigella Bryant]

I seem to be working backwards with my full disk images from November, lol. Lunt 60mm DS and Zwo Asi 178mm. False colour added in PS CS2. Thought I'd post three days sequence from the 26th, 27th and 29th. You can see the progression of spots and plage areas. These images concentrate on the disk rather then with proms and the others processed to reveal proms over the same period. 

[Alan White]

Super images Nigella, great to see what a DS scope can do.
Just looked them up and nearly fell off my chair, blimey that DS adds a bit to the price!
I will enjoy looking at your images all the more.

 

[Nigella Bryant]

27 minutes ago, Alan White said:

Super images Nigella, great to see what a DS scope can do.
Just looked them up and nearly fell off my chair, blimey that DS adds a bit to the price!
I will enjoy looking at your images all the more.

 

It certainly does, I was fortunate enough to get both the scope and double stack etalon second hand so it was less than half the new cost. 

[JeremyS]

Very high standard, Nigella!

[Nigella Bryant]

1 minute ago, JeremyS said:

Very high standard, Nigella!

Thanks Jeremy, appreciate your comment. A bit challenging these because of cloud. Quite hard to tune the etalons with fast moving cloud across the sensor. First one I'm not entirely happy with but it's ok, lol. 

[richard ashbee]

Brilliant mages as usual

[astro_al]

Very nice images. I am just contemplating starting imaging with my LS60 DS. Looks like the ASI178 would be a good buy. 

[Nigella Bryant]

4 minutes ago, richard ashbee said:

Brilliant mages as usual

Thanks Richard, appreciate your comment.

[Nigella Bryant]

2 minutes ago, astro_al said:

Very nice images. I am just contemplating starting imaging with my LS60 DS. Looks like the ASI178 would be a good buy. 

Astri_al, I've no complaints about the 178mm and had no issues. Pleased with it as my go-to Solar camera. 

[astro_al]

Thanks @Nigella Bryant  good to know. Any Newton’s rings to deal with? I think I saw something that tilts the camera in one of you equipment images. 

[Nigella Bryant]

Just now, astro_al said:

Thanks @Nigella Bryant  good to know. Any Newton’s rings to deal with? I think I saw something that tilts the camera in one of you equipment images. 

Hiya, yes I use the modern astronomy tilt adapter with a direct couple to the 178mm. Never had any issues after. There was some slight indications of NR's when I first used the camera. 

[astro_al]

Thanks. I will budget for that as well then. Main thing that is holding me back is the time of year.

[Nigella Bryant]

8 minutes ago, astro_al said:

Thanks. I will budget for that as well then. Main thing that is holding me back is the time of year.

It is more challenging this time of the year but activity is stepping up so worth the struggle with cloud and low altitude of the sun. 

[astro_al]

Unfortunately my driven mount is down the bottom of the garden and doesn’t really see any sun this time of year. The grab and go mount I take out the front is not driven. I did notice that you are using a Solar Quest mount with your LS60DS. I believe that has a 4KG payload so was thinking it would struggle with the Lunt, I guess not judging by your excellent images. 

[Nigella Bryant]

13 minutes ago, astro_al said:

Unfortunately my driven mount is down the bottom of the garden and doesn’t really see any sun this time of year. The grab and go mount I take out the front is not driven. I did notice that you are using a Solar Quest mount with your LS60DS. I believe that has a 4KG payload so was thinking it would struggle with the Lunt, I guess not judging by your excellent images. 

Hiya, yes, I always use the solarquest mount with the Lunt 60mm DS. Very capable mount for the scope. Had no issues except some drift if larger clouds obscure the sun. It's easily put back on track using the mounts buttons. I wish it had WiFi or the ability for a hand control but apart from that it's great. It track's for hour's if the clouds aren't an issue on more sunny day's like yesterday here. 

[Luke]

Lovely shots! My favourite is the third one.

[Nigella Bryant]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

Lovely shots! My favourite is the third one.

Thanks, probably my favourite too.

[Nigella Bryant]

Two more processed from the 29th November

[Pete Presland]

Fabulous images, reminds of those days a few years back when the Sun was littered with A/R's.