20241105 Sun

 Resumed imaging since suffering from sciatica.

The poor Scottish weather also a huge factor.  I found the sun was so low already and it's blocked by some trees.  So I just did an overexposure to cover up the shadows of the branches:

Need to wait until the Sun goes farther up.

I got a new sunshade for my notebook. it's actually a foldable leaves collector.  It works perfectly.

Way cheaper than a foldable sunshade for notebook but it works.

2024/10/19 Comet C/2023 A3

I got nothing, but the sky was clearer than last time.

Last time was 14th of October, the lower part of the sky was partially covered.

20240812 Meteor

I was hoping to get one or two meteors together with some aurora, but unluckily:

Cropped meteor:

The uncropped version:

And finally the aurora:

Push process a bit:

20240812 Sun

The sun is still very active.  We have a thunderstorm thuis morning but the sky cleared later in the afternoon, it's very windy, however.

1410 and 1411 (UT+1), at prime focus:

And then I insert a 2x barlows for close up:

1416 (UT+1)

1414 (UT+1)

1413 (UT+1)

Sorry about the reversed order.

I also pulled out my 8" SCT for a couple of white light shots, I guess I will want to add a color filter, say red, to reduce the disturbance from seeing but I forgot.

1433 and 1434 (UT+1)

20240810 Sun

Very active sun, glad that I did some imaging.

1136 (UT+1), taken with a reducer:

1139 (UT+1), taken at -prime focus:

Cloud moving around, I have to catch the cloud gaps, I actually waited for more than an hour to get two clips.

20240731 H-alpha Sun

The Scottish summer is nearly non-existent this year.  We finally got some sunshine and I pulled out my gear to take a few shots.

1319 + 1320 mosaic of two frames to show the prominences, very active and lovely.

And then 1310 + 1313 mosaic of two frames to show the surface detail, sorry for the ulgy stitching:

And then close up with 2x barlows, first up is 1313 + 1314 mosaic of two frames:

And then another 2x single shot, 1316:

Enjoy a short session.

I used a tripod instead of the short pier I setup for deep sky inaging, far more comfort and still good enough for solar imaging.  I have some concept of the pole in my backyard.

20240603 Sun in H-alpha

 Going back to H-alpha, just before a family BBQ.

Windy day, suboptimal seeeing I would say 4/10, transparency nice at 8/10.

20240516 Sun (White Light)

Trying the 8" SCT white light again, this time with a green filter, I hope it could help a bit on combating seeing?

1541 (UT), using 50% of frames:

Same source, but using 10% of frames only:

1527 (UT) using 10% of the frames:

I didn't try AB comparison with or without the green filter.  Still no granulations.