April 21 Sun

[sheeny]

I managed to capture these just before the clouds closed this morning. Had to wrestle with the puter a bit... all seemed to settle down after the 3rd reboot...:shrug:.

Al.

[sheeny]

And more...

Al.

[sheeny]

But wait... there's more!

Al.

[Derek Klepp]

Al these are great especially the discs and the others considering the aperture for the Ha closeups.Good granulation in the WL pics had a go myself but couldn't quite get it.

[Dennis]

Excellent work Al with some lovely detail in the solar granulation and light bridges. I managed to squeeze off an AVI on Sat too although haven’t had time to process it yet.

A fabulous series – you must have been quite busy at the ‘scope as well as at the computer!

Cheers

Dennis

[sheeny]

Thanks Derek and Dennis.

It does keep me a bit busy. About an hour or so of captures and several hours of processing. (Good excuse to sit down in front of the tele late in the arvo;)).

Al.

[AstroFlyer]

Great captures Al.
I still can't believe you get this result with SM40.
I've seen much worse with SM60.
Congratulations.

[sheeny]

Thanks Arek. I've been impressed with my SM40 ever since I stuck it on the front of my ED80. I think it really does struggle with the 2.5x powermate in the train, so a bigger filter would be good. I'd love an LS75... shame Lunt stopped making them.

Al.

[Cam]

Awesome pics

[sheeny]

Thanks Cam.

Al.

[Jay-qu]

These are amazing, you make me want to go out and buy a narrowband filter.. but my pockets aren't that deep :(

[Paul Haese]

Nice work Al. Finally sunspot numbers are up again. It has been since early or late last year that numbers have been this high.

I would be nice to see these sort of numbers during the Venus transit.

[sheeny]

Yeah, they aren't cheap. I'd like a bigger one myself.;)

Its looking good ATM. Here's hoping it keeps it up for the transit. It would be more interesting.

Thanks guys.

Al.

[Matt Wastell]

Great stuff Al!

[sheeny]

Thanks Matt.

Al.