Bit better conditions today, although there's a lot of passing cloud.
At least four or five significant Proms visible all around the edge and a spectacular eruptive AR near the limb!!
Still processing the images, but here's a preview.....
Thanks David! That's the Coronado SM60 double stack on the ED80 with the x2.8 Klee barlow and DMK21 camera. So only around f21.
Used a bit more gain than usual today ( brightness 200, gain 700) as the seeing was steadier!! Should have gone back to single stack for some of the proms; they were so dynamic the broader bandwidth would have pulled more detail
Just purchased a TV x4 Imagemate ( a SOLID piece of quality gear!!!) so hopefully that will live up to expectations.... we'll see.
That particular AR has moved on!
Every hour, every day is different! That's what makes solar observing so interesting... not like taking the 100th image of M42....
Each prom has it's own character some are very wispy and faint, others show tremendous movement and throw off large lumps of matter as they grow and fade.
There have been some very spectacular animations made using 200 frame AVI's exposed every minute or so... these can easily show the variations in structure, and a prom imaged in the morning may look nothing like the same one imaged later in the day. Magic!!
The surface granulation bubbles and boils; I've just been reading that the average life of a "grain" is about 3 minutes and it's only when they get caught up in a magnetic field that they can clump and show more and more detail; just wait until we have some sunspots to "pull them together"...
A 40mm PST ( or the small Lunt's) will show tremendous amount of surface detail and when combined with a webcam will give very satisfying images.....
I'm a convert to the "bright side"
