[Dennis]

Hi

Mike has cornered the market with Jupiter; Tony and his new beaut Meade RC own DSLR deep sky; Eric is a one man DSO production line; the Moon’s not up so, what is a man to do?

Well, Sunspot 898 looked interesting on SpaceWeather, so I decided to do some solar imaging as today was clear, although windy. Seeing was pretty bad although there were fleeting moments of remarkable clarity.

I dragged out the Vixen 4 inch refractor and fitted the (warning) Baader solar astro film which is for photography only, not visual.

Vixen ED102 f9 refractor
Image 1 - TeleVue x5 PowerMate
Image 2 - TeleVue x2.5 PowerMate
Philips ToUcam 840K
112 frames from 1200

Cheers

Dennis