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Skydetector
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Reged: 08/21/06
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Loc: Albuquerque NM
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Now I know why some of you guys take and post pictures or drawings. You want to share the awesomeness!
My new Coronado DSM mount was delivered Friday so I got to use it today. This mount works fine with my PST and I'm quite happy with it.
The sun was cooking today. Got my first view in this morning before church around 8:30AM. Some thin light clouds and the edge was boiling a bit. The thrill sight was a perfect arch prom at about the 8:00 position. Maybe someone got a picture of it? I don't think there could ever be a better arch than that one.
Then I got to look again around 3:00PM and spend more time at the eyepiece. There were nice proms on each quadrant, including the longest prom I have ever seen around the 4:00 position. I hope someone else saw that one. It looked like a spear being thrown from the sun. I bet that one just keeps going cause it was really long.
That AR in the middle was really pronouced today in the PST. I put on the SM40 and it really stood out. Looked like Chinese writting  There were some really good filaments too. The one that has been ringing the top was really prominent this afternoon. Looked like a fuzzy catapiller crawling around and the one that Stephen Ramsden imaged earlier in the week looks like it was still going strong. It or another one just like it.
Interesting thing that I've been noticing when viewing through my PST, sometimes when I jerk the image due to my messing with the mount or scope, I'll see for a split second proms that are not there when the view is steady. At first I just though it was my eyes playing tricks on me. Now I know that I really am seeing proms. That is how I located that really long one. I bumped the scope and it jerked and for a split second I saw something. So I started tuning for that spot and it suddenly jumped out at me. So I've learned a new trick to solar viewing
HH
Mike
Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project
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I guess I'm a looker, cause I'm looking in the ground, I'm looking in the night sky and I'm looking at the sun.
Orion XTi10 Reflector
Coronado PST/SM40/Coronado DSM
Fisher Metal Detectors
http://www.charliebates.org/
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darkstar528
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Reged: 03/06/07
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Loc: Hodgenville, Kentucky, USA
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Great report!!!!!!...Don't you just love those 'wow' moments? :-)
I have avoided using a tracking system for just that reason...Allowing all segments of the sun to track thru every part of the FOV, as opposed to being constantly focused on one spot, will definitely allow you to see more!...I will let the same prom flow thru the FOV a few times making sure I find all the nuances...Many many times something will pop into view that wasn't there before it tracked a hair...
The negative, for me, is I will sketch for a time, come back, come back to EP and the feature I was sketching will have disappeared, oh well, have to take the [way more]good with the bad!
I viewed late and was so focused on the flaring AR I didn't even look for proms...She's been very active since yesterday!
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Blue skies,
Stephen "Darkstar" Ames
PST(#96038), VIXEN 8-24mm,CEMAX 2x Barlow, Thousand Oaks White Light Filter and a Meade Elec EP
CFI, CFII, MEI, working on EIEIO!
BAA Member
My solar site:
http://seemysunspot.com
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marktownley
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 08/19/08
Posts: 2256
Loc: West Midlands, UK
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Great report! Glad you're getting some sun for your new scope 
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Cosmosphil
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Reged: 02/04/05
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Loc: So. California
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Mike,
Glad your enjoying the views!
Actually, there are reasons your "trick" works so well.
First, as Stephen points out, the PST has a very small but strong sweet spot. When you bump the scope you move the image around and "new" proms pop for a second as the sweet spot shifts. Secondly, just as in night viewing, fainter proms can be seen with averted vision techniques. And, just as some of us old nightimers do with a faint galaxy, tapping the scope causes our sensitivity to movement to come into play and fainter details can be seen.
I sometimes lightly tap both the PST and Lunt scopes as well as constantly move around the image to pick up ARs, proms, and filaments that are "hiding" and changing all over the surface. Its like exploring a vast new world everytime we enjoy our star moment to moment.
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Phil Agins
15" Discovery TD
10" Discovery PDHQ
5.7" Ceravolo Mak-Newt HD145
TEC 140, TeleVue-102
Vixen ED80Sf, APM-LOMO 80/600
Coronado PST, Lunt LS60THaDS50/B1200
Porta Mount, GPD2, Sphinx SXD
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swisswalter
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Reged: 03/29/09
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Loc: Eastern-Switzerland
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hi phil
a good explenation
walter
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only dust in the wind, TAK on GM8, Lunt 60, DMK31,still greenhorn, but as a golfer used to be humble
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marktownley
Carpal Tunnel
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Loc: West Midlands, UK
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I often use tapping as a method of seeing more in Ha and CaK.
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Davidgojr
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Reged: 08/09/08
Posts: 328
Loc: San Antonio, TX
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Hi Mike
I saw that great "spear" prom yesterday afternoon around the same time you did at it was awesome. I've seen many spike prominences but it was the longest one I had seen to date. That active region really popped out as well.
David
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David
San Antonio, TX
Orion XT6, White Light Solar, H-alpha Coronado PST
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