reezeh Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 Decided to have a look at the sun using Altair herschel wedge on 102mm refractor today. Eyepiece used Vixen LV 8 - 24mm zoom and filters Baader solar continuum and out of curiosity OIII, red and deep blue, plus semi-APO. No matter what, I couldn't make out 2812 at all, apart from perhaps the slightest glimpse, but the faculae 2811 stood out sharply. I checked on the status of the spots and the info said they've shrunk. Did anybody have any luck seeing it today? As a note, I did like the results of the continuum and OIII. The OIII seemed to bring out 2811 quite well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johninderby Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 Checked with Solar Monitor and couldn’t see the spot on their latest image so didn’t bother looking myself. The spot has been shrinking the last few days so not surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reezeh Posted March 30, 2021 Author Share Posted March 30, 2021 (edited) It was a tiny pore on the site earlier but has disappeared. I was rather hoping to catch something. It isn’t as if I have many chances or clear weather. At least I saw some faculae, so at least it's not a total waste Edited March 30, 2021 by reezeh Oops - doesn't make sense til I add "site" - which I should have put in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johninderby Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 (edited) Was better a few days ago although still tiny. Maybe some proper spots next week? 🙏🏼🙏🏼 Edited March 30, 2021 by johninderby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reezeh Posted March 30, 2021 Author Share Posted March 30, 2021 12 minutes ago, johninderby said: Was better a few days ago although still tiny. Maybe some proper spots next week? 🙏🏼🙏🏼 It's a pity that there's not a few probes in orbit of the sun. At least it'll give a heads up. On top of that, Bradford is even cloudier than the rest of the UK 😭 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johninderby Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 You should read this. http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Exploring_space/How_we_see_the_far_side_of_the_Sun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reezeh Posted March 30, 2021 Author Share Posted March 30, 2021 1 hour ago, johninderby said: You should read this. http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Exploring_space/How_we_see_the_far_side_of_the_Sun It's not so much as the far side, more rather what's just beyond the edge of the limb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 I didn't do white light today, but with my 100mm scope and h-alpha filter, I couldn't make out any sunspots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcK Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 12 hours ago, reezeh said: Decided to have a look at the sun using Altair herschel wedge on 102mm refractor today. Eyepiece used Vixen LV 8 - 24mm zoom and filters Baader solar continuum and out of curiosity OIII, red and deep blue, plus semi-APO. No matter what, I couldn't make out 2812 at all, apart from perhaps the slightest glimpse, but the faculae 2811 stood out sharply. I checked on the status of the spots and the info said they've shrunk. Did anybody have any luck seeing it today? As a note, I did like the results of the continuum and OIII. The OIII seemed to bring out 2811 quite well. Yes it has shrunk. I imaged it for the first time on Sunday and looked for it yesterday and it was there but seemed to have split into two much small spots. I saw it(them) around 11AM and by 4PM couldn't see them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reezeh Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 3 hours ago, TerryMcK said: Yes it has shrunk. I imaged it for the first time on Sunday and looked for it yesterday and it was there but seemed to have split into two much small spots. I saw it(them) around 11AM and by 4PM couldn't see them. I was wondering if it was just lost in the seeing for me. It was about 11 UT I started to look. Itching to know what's just beyond the limb coming around our way; anything worthwhile setting up for? I know that it's early days in the current cycle and that trends have been downward. I just hope that for at least as long as I'm stuck with white light that there's something to see and no Maunder-type minimum in my lifetime at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcK Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 There were just facula visible today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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