AR2822 11th May 2021

[UKJay1971]

Finally managed to grab some solar this month in between the seemingly permanent cloud cover. AR 2822 has developed nicely and shows lots of detail. Had a play with my Daystar Quark setting and it was quite off-band. Also an opportunity to test my revamped T430 imaging laptop (these things are awesome for the money second hand now and the ability to upgrade them!). New SSD and 16GB of RAM and I was hitting close to 100FPS on my Altair 174m camera. Seeing was average but being able to reject 80% of frames across 2000+ frame 20 second video grabs was a bonus. Processed using Astra Image wavelets and Topaz DeNoise (my go-to denoising software now!). You can see the sunspot, its magnetic patterns as well as some Earth facing spicules (sharper white crests on otherwise motion blurred waves of plasma). Hoping this is the start of more surface activity for this summer.

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Edited May 14, 2021 by UKJay1971