Layers of the Solar atmosphere

[Peter Ward]

Had a bit of fun today by actually having enough time to image the upper (H-Alpha) and lower ( CaK) layers of the solar chromosphere .

A rollover image of these layers can be seen here

[sheeny (Al)]

Very cool, Peter.

Al.

[DavidU (Dave)]

Well done. The sun spot in CaK looks like a hole. Great detail.
My young son just asked if the image was taken at night

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Cool, good work and excellent roll-over

[leon]

Nicely executed Peter, very different indeed.

Leon

[MrB (Simon)]

Very nice. Love the roll-over.

[spearo (Frank)]

very cool
frank

[iceman (Mike)]

Beautiful, Pete!

[Derek Klepp]

Nice Peter what set up do you use for the CaK images?

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by Derek Klepp

Nice Peter what set up do you use for the CaK images?

Thanks Guys. I use a Lunt Solar B1200 CaK module, with my AP130 stopped down to 100mm.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Excellent work Peter, certainly provides a very different and most interesting perspective.

Very well done.
Regards
Trevor

[telecasterguru (Frank)]

Great images that show the different aspects of the sun.

[astronobob (Bob)]

Awesome seeing and analysing the two.

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Hi Peter - great images - enjoy your work immensely!

[multiweb (Marc)]

Wow... this is hot and super cool at the same time. As good as it gets.

[Paul Haese]

Nice going Peter. The seeing not as good as last week? That scale was impressive. The detail is nice today for sure but not as lovely last week.

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Nice going Peter. The seeing not as good as last week? That scale was impressive. The detail is nice today for sure but not as lovely last week.

Thanks. Seeing was OK, but I used a shorter FL to cut down on the amount of stitching required (the Cak image still has a bit of glitch).

As an aside, Cak is underwhelming visually...very deep violet and very hard to see any detail at all. ....but comes up a treat with a CCD