Sunspots through a 230mm Lunt - AR3051

[that_guy (Tony)]

Hey gang. Long time no post.
Recently, I've acquired a second part-time casual position at the Charleville Cosmos Centre. One of the perks of working there, I get to play around with a 230mm single stack Lunt. Coupled with my asi1600mm, it produces a very nice close up view of the sun.

I'm still learning the basics of solar imaging so it's not the best image but the detail that the scope gives is quite spectacular.

Stack of 30seconds worth of frames. I cannot remember what the exposure was aha.

[croweater (Richard)]

Originally Posted by that_guy

Hey gang. Long time no post.
Recently, I've acquired a second part-time casual position at the Charleville Cosmos Centre. One of the perks of working there, I get to play around with a 230mm single stack Lunt. Coupled with my asi1600mm, it produces a very nice close up view of the sun.

I'm still learning the basics of solar imaging so it's not the best image but the detail that the scope gives is quite spectacular.

Stack of 30seconds worth of frames. I cannot remember what the exposure was aha.

Wow Tony . Nice work. That's a big solar scope! What are the white areas? Are they higher temp?
Cheers, Richard

[that_guy (Tony)]

I think so, they're the areas that are white clipped in the video.

[Averton (P and C)]

Pretty impressive bit of kit Tony. You'll need exceptional seeing to take advantage of that aperture. Not a bad perk of the job

[Dave882 (David)]

That’s really cool! I’m very much looking forward to see more shots from this setup.

[Saturnine (Jeff)]

Great image from a big Ha scope, seems a handy place to work with toys like that to play with.
The small bright spots , if what you captured is accurate, are called Ellerman Bombs.
https://spaceweathergallery.com/indi...load_id=186515 .