the story so far:
I was fortunate to be sick, and after visiting the doctor’s I managed to get home earlier than normal. This gave me a slightly larger window of opportunity than normal. After placating the family I snuck up the back to the observatory, and by this stage it was well after 5pm, that gave me around 55 minute until the sun brushed the palm tree in the neighbour’s yard. The seeing was very average to below average, but I kept at it as a whole mass of cloud from a cyclone in Queensland may come down and cover everything up for the next few days.
I undertook to do the Surface in HA first then try for the proms, and by this stage the afternoon was dragging on – I paid the price when trying to get the white light mosaic done. It’s the first successful one I have done, however I paid the price with the late afternoon sun and you can see the brightness change in the stitch up. Well it’s better than nothing
While imaging I also managed to catch a plane in the Baader Solar wedge on the 127ED and the Lunt60. as well as catching sunspot AR1967 unleashed a strong M6-class solar flare (see spaceweather.com)
SO here they are – processed by a blind man with no talent in a china shop with buttery fingers……….