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On the 1st CN Int Sun day there were some moments of exquisite seeing that resolved the proms into minute tendrils. However, they were all about 7-8 minutes before the fixed times!! This view at 1000Ut had good seeing that allowed a 5mm ep. Some of the structure was faint and elusive. That's Pete on the left holding the proms steady for his exposures.
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The view 30 minutes later...
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1st sketch at 0900, lots of prom fragments, seeing moderate..
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0930 - 30 minutes saw some big changes.
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1st time series including Pete's 0830 shot
...updated version lower down ...
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PeteLawrence
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Fantastic as always! You'll wear that pencil out Les. That prom has been changing really fast all day hasn't it. I've got every half hour covered from 08:30 so far.
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Pete looks like hes getting tired holding that prom still.  At 8:30 he's is standing up straight. Great idea and beautiful work guys.!
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atoptics
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I took a break after 1130UT - The black hood (silver on the outside was quite cool) but the pencils were starting to melt. Maybe later this afternoon.
Here is another montage including Patricia's & Sol's images .
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darkstar528
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Can I play? Here is mine cropped from 1310z:
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Patricia
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Thnkx fantastic montage you make! great idea !!!
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atoptics
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Going for a walk by the sea folks - add to the montage later!
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Great images.
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Great results!!!
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This prom has more changes than a backing dancer for the Spice Girls.
Same here, been imaging since 10am, but alternating between CaK, PST80 and SF70..(just for fun)
Should be posting later today..
Great ...nay superb sketches..
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Keep going. 
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Great work!!!!!
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atoptics
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Pete has sorted his pixels (pencils are faster!) and his and all the other fine work is now on this single montage. Yell if I've missed you out.
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Hi Les,
Thanks for all the work you've put in on this. You know, up against an image there's no where to hide and you've proved, yet again, just what a fantastic sketcher you are. Your renditions are very accurate indeed and that's something to be really proud of in my book.
As for the other's - a fantastic job everyone! Mark - I sensed you were worried about the afocal contribution but I hope the montage Les has put up has convinced you of it's worth.
Greg's fantastic image at 15:30 shows the evil penguin about which more later...
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I love the presentation!...
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It's been a fantastic day and many thanks to everyone. There will still be some images to add (where's Nick!) so please keep them coming. We really chose the most awkward and strangely changing prom that we could find! We must do it again (but maybe not tomorrow!!). Pete - You must be immensely relieved to find that your equipment works OK   . But seriously, it does relieve me that sketches can have a nodding resemblance to reality. Maybe at liesure you can pm me your images because it will be very educational to study them in detail.
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Terrific day and a great idea. Thanks to Pete for organising and Les for the superb montage. While I was a bit wary of including the afocals because of their lack of resolution it is nice to see how they fit into the sequence and to be able to compare what people are seeing with different equipment. I agree that we should do something like this again!
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Thanks to Nick too for making the suggestion of a co-ordinated recording session.
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atoptics
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Here is the montage updated 1911UT 7May. It's gone over the CN file size limit so it is in two pieces. Sorry Pete, exhaustion set in so some of your images are still in black and white.
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Part2
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WOW, what a presentation...I tried to view at 1730, but too hazy ;-(
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This kind of brings up a issue I have. 
It would be easier to back research solar details of the sun if we all posted to a single thread each day. It takes away from each of us but it makes the idea of researching the history of the sun easier. What do others think?
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great project ... would love to have contributed ... hazy here, too (just like Stephen's weather in Kentucky)
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Mark, it's very useful to have everything together for backward research but I kinda like the individual takes on the Sun from day to day as well. The archive should be built by trawling a days results but that would take a lot of work.
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I think you meant to address your response to Colin in the last post Pete, not me ??
I can see Colin's point about potentially useful research data being lost in the multitude of daily posts in this forum. The best thing everyone can do is submit their records to a recognised national solar data collection centre each month as well as posting in here. I know both I and a number of other contributors in the forum submit to the British Astronomical Association (BAA) on a monthly basis and I am sure there is an equivalent body for other nationalities too (if not submit to the BAA as they are happy to receive international data).
It constantly amazes me how much information passes through this forum. I think we probably produce more immediate and visible Ha, CaK and white light data than most of the dedicated solar satellites floating around the sun on a daily basis.
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>>>The archive should be built by trawling a days results but that would take a lot of work.
I call it seemysunspot.com :-)
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Sorry Colin - I didn't get to bed until 4am yesterday morning and it's taking its toll 
Stephen - good point, your website is a fantastic archive of activity.
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Great job everyone!
If anyone is interested, there's no reason why we couldn't have a dedicated thread for that day or that month's collective observations/images/sketches. The lunar forum has a monthly thread up for this same concept and those that wish to add to it can or link to their own observation report.
I'll create a separate post for this to see if there's interest.
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Well, hats off to everyone involved in that amazing montage. Wow, talk about impressive!!
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great stuff!!
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atoptics
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>I call it seemysunspot.com :-)
>http://seemysunspot.com
Stephen -- You're doing a fine job there. Viewing your pages really gives a good impression of solar activity. One thing - you might want to consider adding a link on or under new images to the relevant CN posting?
Please keep it up - a fine record and an asset!
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Les
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