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Imaging date was January 15th, location Germany. Weather was very nice but the seeing was not good. Later in the afternoon the seeing got better and the sun stayed low above the horizon. Then at 3:00 p.m. I was able to do the images. I used my skywatcher achromat 102 mm f/660 mm the first time with Baader 2 power VIP Barlow and the CaK B1200. The image shows NOAA groups 1401 and 1402.
I know, I know… how can anyone get a better picture…?
Here is the awesome DSLR image from my LS100Ha/B1800/LS100F doublestack using a DSLR! Canon 7D. I think the same crazy long technique should work with the Lunt Solar Imager, gonna try it next.
January 15th, 2012
Crackling with C-class solar flares, a pair of active sunspots is emerging over the sun’s northeastern limb today. Our BRASSO SID Receiver recorded 3 flares yesterday afternoon just before sunset. BRASSO Solar Graphs can be found here: http://sid.stanford.edu/database-browser/
Sunspot 1401 produced an M1-flare on Jan. 14th. Two days earlier, while it was still on the farside of the sun, sunspot 1402 produced a partially-eclipsed flare of uncertain magnitude that created waves of ionization in the atmosphere over Europe.
To make these spots even more interesting one needs to observe them with a Hydrogen Alpha filter. As the two HUGE sunspots emerge over the limb they resemble a set of eyes. And to make it even better there is a huge filament beneath them that looks like a huge crescent, adding a smile beneath the eyes.
Imagine my surprise when I looked in the scope today and saw this smiley face looking back at me…..
This is a composite of 3 images stitched together.
Scope: Lunt Solar Systems LS60THa w/B1200CRF
Mount: Losmandy G-11 mounted in a Skyshed POD
Camera: Canon 40D using EOS MOV_REC capture
Each section utilized 4000 frames, Stacked in Registax v6
Image stitched and colorized in Adobe Photoshop CS5.1
Full disk image, Lunt LS60THa & B1200 blocking Filter. Mounted on a Losmandy G-11 in a Skyshed POD located in Amherst, Ohio.
Image acquired on January 7th, 2012.Canon 40D, 1/350 second, 800 ISO, avi file captured using EOS Image Recorder, 3500 images at 20f/s. Aligned in Registax, best 25% stacked. Stretched and processed in Adobe Photoshop.
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Cak pictures were taken on 11-18-2011 Lumenera 2m Color camera in 12 bit mode with 3 X meade barlow on my 90mm Apogee achromat refractor focal length of 6.1 mm
Ha pictures were taken on 10-30-2011 with 60mm lunt double stacked pressure tune telescope with Lumenera 2m Color camera at 12 bit along with 3X meade barlow.
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