H-Alpha Transit Image from Sunny Griffith

[Star Catcher (Ted Dobosz)]

What a memorable event! Here is my contribution to the mountain of pics already submitted. Taken from Griffith.


Ted

[h0ughy (David)]

wow what a shot. You did very well. when did you decide to go there?

[Paul Haese]

Very nice work Ted. Nice active region detail.

[Tandum (Robin)]

It is a great shot. Can I see Venus's gravity field distorting the image?

[Star Catcher (Ted Dobosz)]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Very nice work Ted. Nice active region detail.

Thanks Paul, I was rather pleased with it given the wobbly conditions I had in the morning followed by loss of afternoon data following a software glitch!
Ted

[Star Catcher (Ted Dobosz)]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

wow what a shot. You did very well. when did you decide to go there?

Thanks David, planned to run for it after weekend weather reports were gloomy. Got away on Tuesday. Glad I did, as it removed the uncertanty.

Ted

[Peter Ward]

An excellent result Ted. You have to be very pleased with that

[Star Catcher (Ted Dobosz)]

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

An excellent result Ted. You have to be very pleased with that

Thanks Peter, yes the way it turned out I was pleased as I was not sure that the morning sessions data was good enough, but there was enough good seeing in the grab.

Ted

[bfonseka (Buddhi)]

I made the 600km+ drive to Griffith as well - with a Meade LX90 8-inch. I setup on the lawn of the A-Line hotel and it all worked a treat. A truly memorable event. I decided on Monday as the 48-hour forecasts are usually accurate.

[Star Catcher (Ted Dobosz)]

Originally Posted by Tandum

It is a great shot. Can I see Venus's gravity field distorting the image?

Hi Robin

Yes I and others noticed this effect and speculated atmosphere, but the scale was not right. The hi comopression jpeg version here makes that effect more pronounced.

I suspect it might be some sort of artifact from the stacking process. Remembering that this is a stack of about 150 images out of about 3000. So this was taken over about 3.5 minutes the disk would have moved considerably.

Ted

[iceman (Mike)]

Beautiful image, Ted! Love it!

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Hi Ted
A wonderful image for sure - really pleasing in all aspects! Congratulations.

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

Awesome image!

[Derek Klepp]

Great pic Ted glad you got away from the bad weather

[Russian (Stephen)]

Great shot , all i could see was clouds here in orange

[multiweb (Marc)]

Wow! That's really beautiful. Well done.

[Star Catcher (Ted Dobosz)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Wow! That's really beautiful. Well done.

Thanks Marc

[Star Catcher (Ted Dobosz)]

Originally Posted by Russian

Great shot , all i could see was clouds here in orange

Thanks Stephen. Yes it was a bit of a lottery for most people within 200 kms of the coast around Sydney.
Ted