Solar Images 4

[bluescope]

Decided to take a look at the sun again today despite strong, gusty winds. I found a sheltered spot to set up and snapped some images of the disk and found some new activity.
First shot was taken with Meade DSX90-AT and second is a crop of an image taken with Skywatcher 200mm F5 Newtonian plus Meade Variable Projection adapter and Vixen LV20mm eyepiece.



p.s. The only trouble with imaging and observing the sun is a touch of winter sunburn

[RB (Andrew)]

Excellent work Steve.

[bluescope]

Thanks Andrew. There won't be any images today as we have total cloud cover here in the west .... never mind it will give my skin a bit of relief !

[Kal (Andrew)]

lol, winter sunburn, you must be spending alot of your outside hours under the moonlight and not getting much sun in the summer

Nice images!

[bluescope]

Yep .... never been one for the sun, always preferred the night .... wrong complexion and now the doc tells me to stay completely covered up if I go outside .... nasty little skin cancers ...... gald you like the images !

[leon]

Very nice images you have there Steve, great work.

Leon

[bluescope]

Thanks Leon !

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Very good images Steve, nice and clear. The close up is a ripper

[bluescope]

Cheers Ken !
I wanted to image the next day because the sunspots were right in the centre of the disk and looked larger when I had a quick look through holes in cloud cover with my Newt filter attached to my 9x50 finder scope ( handy little filter ). By the time I had setup my other equipment the cloud cover was completely obscuring everything and that was the situation for the next 2 days.
I took some shots yesterday but things were quite boring .... only the 2 main spots visible with no extra facets etc.
Clear skies again today so I may check things out later.