Hydrogen Alpha Saturday Sun - 12 March 2011

[Matt Wastell]

Hello all,

The skies were not friendly this afternoon - well the clouds anyway.

There has been so much going on with the Sun lately I did not want to miss out - glad I set up but 6 minutes of AVI's during an afternoon session is a little light on.

Image 1 - AR 1171 and Filaments
image 2 - AR 1166 & 1169
Image 3 - this was an image through light clouds - got a bit of disc and prom in the one shot.

All with Lunt60/Ha, 2.5 Powermate, DMK31 and stacked and processed in Registax5 - no idea of the imaging settings as I had to tweak often!

http://www.pbase.com/mattwastell/image/133104184

Thanks for looking!

[sheeny]

Thanks for posting Matt. Cloudy here so I've spent the day modifying and mounting my spectroscope.

Al.

[Quark]

Nice work as usual Matt, very detailed structure in the active regions and like the prom. Have never really got into Solar imaging Matt but I wondered , if you got a good cloud free day, would it be possible to take a series of the active regions to construct an animation.

Cheers Trevor

[Matt Wastell]

Thanks guys,

Absolutely Trevor - there are some great imagers out there who do images to animations.

Michael Buxton is one (these may be a big files?)
http://mbucky.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/jumpergiff9mar2011.gif
http://mbucky.wordpress.com/
Thomas Ashcraft is another
http://www.heliotown.com/SanflMar092011_2219_2253ut_Ashcraft .gif

I tend to be a shoot and quickly process guy!

[Derek Klepp]

Nice pics Matt I could see those Filaments in the first shot this arvo between the clouds.Just wondering is your scope double stacked?

[Matt Wastell]

Thanks Derek - I image with the standard scope (no double stacking). I do have the second filter but need a long session to muck around with it!

[Troy]

Nice detail and very smooth processing Matt :)

[THEO-007]

great work matt.

[Matt Wastell]

Hi again,

I got some more Sun in today , Sunday 13 March - conditions were not much better than yesterday but there were longer periods of cloudless skies!

AR 1166 / 1169 and AR 1171 again plus comparison images over the two days.

Thanks for looking

[Derek Klepp]

Great update Matt I'm down here near Byron and have been clouded out nearly all day.

[Quark]

Hi Matt, I have a friend in the UK, Dave Tyler, who is a very good planetary imager and does really nice Solar work as well. He sent me an absolute stunner of an animation of a prom this morning. I told him about your work and he has given me permission to post this animation for you.

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads/sun2011Mar08DTanim.gif

Regards
Trevor

[Troy]

Very good pictures and update on this active sun :)

[Matt Wastell]

Hi Trevor - Dave does excellent work - great imaging and animation - does he have a site I can visit?

[Quark]

Hi Matt,

Dave does have a website but it doesn't seem to be very up to date.

http://www.david-tyler.com/aboutme.asp

Next time I am talking to him I will ask him to add you to the list that he sends his images to.

Regards
Trevor

[Quark]

Hi again Matt, silly me, I don't have your email address to give to Dave. If you go to his website you will see a contact address for Dave. I have already told him about your work so if you are interested and contact him, I am sure he would add you to his list.

Cheers
Trevor

[spearo]

great shots
frank