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The sun on a very windy day: 11/8/2024

Started by gstrumol , Nov 08 2024 02:44 PM

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#1 gstrumol

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Posted 08 November 2024 - 02:44 PM

The wind gusts (up to 27 mph) were slapping the house, and Astrospheric gave seeing as a gray bar (poor), but the sun was out, so ...

I started as soon as the sun cleared the tree line with the AT80EDL/Baader film setup for some WL imaging:

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There were plenty of light bridges to be seen across the different AR groups. Like yesterday, the seeing and wind kept me from getting some sharp spots, but it turned out better than I expected.

After a while, and motivated by Warren's suggestion about what was happening in Ha, I took out the PST and managed to get a shot before the sun past the point of visibility from my balcony:

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Plenty of detail here as well, with lots of proms and bold filaments! The sun, indeed, has been active

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#2 nateclishe

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Posted 08 November 2024 - 05:42 PM

Nice images! seeing was horrible in northern Michiganas well but I can't pass up an opportunity. Using a Lunt 60 Single stack and a zwo 1600mm. I'm using 1x1 bin, gain 15 and exposure of 10ms. Still trying to get the hang of this.

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#3 Astro-Goat

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Posted 08 November 2024 - 05:52 PM

Nice images! seeing was horrible in northern Michiganas well but I can't pass up an opportunity. Using a Lunt 60 Single stack and a zwo 1600mm. I'm using 1x1 bin, gain 15 and exposure of 10ms. Still trying to get the hang of this.

Well done. I actually have a Lunt 60, SS, as well and used a Player One Saturn M. I took one yesterday but my sunspots seemed to be a mirror image of yours more or less. Like the large sunspot you have at the 7 o'clock position is at the 1 o'clock for me.

I'm using Sharpcap for the video capture, AutoStakkart for the stacking, IMPPG for the stretch, and then Photoshop for final touches and coloring.