Hello,
Sheltering under my shade blanket from the fierce heat and glare of the Sun, I watched in awe as waves of good seeing washed over the live image on the computer screen, revealing some breathtaking moments of steady seeing that lasted several seconds at a time. This one AVI was going to be a joy to process.
By the time I had slewed to AR1046, the seeing had slumped from gobsmackingly fantastic to just very good. I went to fetch the x2.5 PowerMate but upon returning, the Sun was blotted out by wisps of clouds arriving from the SE, so I packed up. Plugging the portable HDD into my desktop computer I eagerly launched AviStack, itching to see the quality of the data embedded in the 1250 frame file; I wasn’t disappointed, it was easily the best of the 3 recorded today.
In the final image we can see the remnants of AR1045 along with solar granules and faculae, bright areas that are usually most easily seen near the limb of the solar disk. I’m not sure if it’s just a perspective effect, but the main sun spot appears to have the profile of a depression, or bowl?
Cheers
Dennis