wanglese
28-03-2010, 01:04 PM
Shoulda posted this here.
At last!
Today, the sky was clear enough for me to actually do some solar astronomy. The atmospherics were lousy, with shimmering all over the place, and some high, very thin clouds.
I took the Meade out onto the porch this morning, and got the guiding nearly perfect.
There are 2 active sunspot regions visible on the Sun today, 1057, and 1059. Both are Cycle 24 spots, with 1059 just coming over the limb
I managed 2 half decent images of the 1057.
I was out so long towards the end of my observing/imaging session, I started to get some odd artefacts in the telescope and on the image. I mean *really weird* then I looked up, and it was the edge of the porch roof coming into the eyepiece.
Since the porch is about a gazillion times closer to the telescope than the sun, it was a little out of focus.
At last!
Today, the sky was clear enough for me to actually do some solar astronomy. The atmospherics were lousy, with shimmering all over the place, and some high, very thin clouds.
I took the Meade out onto the porch this morning, and got the guiding nearly perfect.
There are 2 active sunspot regions visible on the Sun today, 1057, and 1059. Both are Cycle 24 spots, with 1059 just coming over the limb
I managed 2 half decent images of the 1057.
I was out so long towards the end of my observing/imaging session, I started to get some odd artefacts in the telescope and on the image. I mean *really weird* then I looked up, and it was the edge of the porch roof coming into the eyepiece.
Since the porch is about a gazillion times closer to the telescope than the sun, it was a little out of focus.