Sunspot 898

[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

[h0ughy (David)]

wonderful detail Dennis!

[RB (Andrew)]

Excellent images Dennis, but I think you're the man who has his finger in every pie !!!
Well done mate.

Alway look forward to your images.

[EzyStyles (Eric)]

great sunspot dennis! never have imaged the sun before hmm you gave me an idea but i'll leave the sun to you lol

cheers for your comment.

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Very well done Dennis. I wanted to capture the sunspot today as it wasn't there when I took my Sun pic last week! But alas, Cloud!!!! Tomorrow maybe.

[iceman (Mike)]

Great shot Dennis! I want to try and capture it myself on the weekend before it disappears.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Pretty awesome clarity Dennis.

[Dennis]

Thanks guys. It was blowing a gale at the time so I was pretty lucky to get anything at all.

Cheers

Dennis

[ving (David)]

great stuff dennis. looks like a sunflower

[venus (Lydia)]

Great pics theres Dennis. The lighter penumbra shows an interesting phenomena of what could be a 'gaseous ejection' into the dark penumbra Which is cooler than the overall photosphere.
Amazing

[sheeny (Al)]

There would seem to be very little that you can't do very well Dennis! Those images are sharp enough for a doctor to make a diagnosis by... I'd say get it removed before the cancer spreads...

Al.