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Thanks to: Howard
Lunt Solar CaK Filter

A very nice image from Florida.

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SOHO, the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory, is a project of international collaboration between ESA and NASA to study the Sun from its deep core to the outer corona and the solar wind.

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The Sun is our Star!

.......and as you would expect, our Star is hot, bright, dynamic, and sometimes quite violent.

At 93 million miles away, we are ideally placed at a point where the Sun provides just enough warmth and energy essential to our living planet, Earth.
At only 93 million miles, the Sun is close enough for us to view it's surface thru a relatively inexpensive scope from the comfort and relative safety (Sunscreen please) of our backyards on a clear and warm day.

What! Astronomy during the day? Lunt Solar wants to show you how.

References

Prominences:
These look like eruptions from the edge of the Solar disk. Prominences can be small spikey looking details, or large cloud-like detail with fine feather-like features.

They are, in fact, ionized Hydrogen-alpha emissions being projected from the linb.

Prominences are anchored to the Sun's surface in the Mesosphere, and extend outward into the Sun's Troposhere.
They typically measure many earth diameters.

Filaments:
These are strin-like features on the surface of the Sun.

At high resultion they take on a 3D effect due to the coller aspect of the suspended filament contrasted against the bright, hotter Sun.

They are actually prominences being viewed against the surface.

Spicules
A Spicule is a dynamic jet of gas about 500km long.
They move outward at about 20km/second thru the Chromosphere.

Father Angelo Secchi of the Vatican Observatory discovered them in 1877.

The Chromosphere is entirely composed of Spicules. These features can be seen as "fur"around the edge of the disk.

There's definately stuff to look at :)

Gerald Miller

December 14th, 2011

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All Images were taken on December 10, 2011 with my Lunt LS60T/PT LS60DS and Point Grey GigE Flea3 camera. These are actually the first images I’ve taken with the Lunt LS60/DS60!

The scope is mounted on a Astro-Physics Mach1GTO near Muskogee, OK. I used Registax 2.1 and Photoshop CS5 to process the images.

Below is a 4-part mosaic taken 12/28/11… My first! Enjoy!

Posted in..... APO, lunt solar

Eric Africa

December 14th, 2011

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My Name: Enrico “Eric” Africa.

Below are my entries for the Lunt Solar Imaging Contest.

Date Taken: December 10, 2011

Location: West Chester, Ohio

Image specifications:

Lunt Equipment used: LS50F filter with B1200 blocking filter.

Optics: Borg 76ED

Camera: Imaging Source DMK 21AU04.AS

Images 1, 3 and 6 were captured at native focal length and upsized. Image 13 had a Celestron Ultima Barlow attached to the camera for additional image scale.

Capture Software: IC Capture

Processing Software: AVIStack, Photoshop CS, IrFanView

Image 1

Image 3

Image 6

Image 13

Image specifications:

Date Taken: December 24, 2011

Lunt Equipment used: LS50F filter with B1200 blocking filter.

Optics: Borg 76ED

Camera: Imaging Source DMK 21AU04.AS

Captured at native focal length.

Processing Software: AVIStack, Photoshop CS, IrFanView

The “shadow bands” are the result of the image being captured with the Sun low in a December mid-afternoon, shining through the branches of a neighbor’s tree.

Posted in..... lunt solar

Brian Colville

December 6th, 2011

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The full disk solar images are from the following equipment:

Ha image is with a LS80T double stacked with a LS75FHa and B1200Ha blocker, and a 0.8x telecompressor.
CaK image is through a Williams Optics 72mm APO and Lunt B1200 CaK blocker.
White Light Image is with the WO72 and 2″ Lunt Solar Wedge.

The higher resolution Ha images use the same LS80T/LS75FHa/B1200Ha with a 2x Barlow.

The higher resolution CaK images use the B1200CaK through a Celestron 102 refractor.

11/6/11

11/12/11

12/8/11

12/24/11

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Pepe Manteca

December 6th, 2011

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Hello from Barcelona:

My name is Pepe Manteca and I have a SUPER LS60T Ha/B1200. I am surprised by the quality offered by Lunt and I never tire of capturing images and animations.

Superprominencia video taken 18/1/2012 used Lunt60 + DMK41 + Barlow 3x see link below.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/manteka/6721592677/in/photostream/lightbox/

Image below: Sun 29.11.2011 13.07 TU LUNT LS60T Ha/B1200 DMk41 Barlow 3x