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Averton
01-06-2023, 10:44 PM
First day of winter.
Our weather continues to be challenging for astronomy. We have been a bit slow and missed a couple of narrow opportunities over the last 6 days of clouds and rain. Contrary to the forecast, this morning was initially sunny. The SSM graph tells the story. All of the dips in the red reference line and the corresponding peaks of bad seeing in the yellow line are clouds which started off sparse and gradually increased to the point that it was game over which stopped our captures of 540nm images.
Full disk two panel mosaic in Ha (taken initially with no clouds).
Ha close up of AR3319 and AR3315 with a large prom on the eastern limb (these were captured in the next clear spell).

Averton
01-06-2023, 10:46 PM
Ha close up of incoming AR3323 and AR3321, with some surges from AR3323.
Full disk two panel mosaic in 393nm (now the clouds were starting to get serious).
Close ups in 540nm taken with 6" SCT, sharpened with WaveSharp, taken through cloud until we had to stop.

John W
02-06-2023, 04:46 PM
Nice images esp. the close ups, despite the clouds etc. Been cloudy where I live as well. Cheers, John W.

Averton
02-06-2023, 08:38 PM
Thanks John :)

Dennis
04-06-2023, 08:21 PM
Lovely series once again Clare & Peter and as usual, the WL images really capture my attention.:thumbsup::)

Cheers

Dennis

Averton
04-06-2023, 09:09 PM
Thanks Dennis, much appreciated :)