The sun, loop prominence on southwest Limb
Nice loop prominence was visible on the sun’s southwest limb.
Image taken with Solarscope Ltd. 50mm h-alpha telescope, Televue 2.5X Powermate, DMK 21AF04.AS camera 1/82 sec, 60 fps. Sky was clear, 5 mph wind, temperature 68 °F, turbulence about 6/10, transparency very good, location Louisville, CO.
March 30th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Where in Louisville do you go to get these pictures?
Can you see M31 and some other DSOs without a telescope?
April 1st, 2008 at 7:57 pm
I just haul my scope out to the backyard. If you are in the Louisville-Longmont-Boulder area join us sometime at a star party… see http://www.longmontastro.org for schedule.
From a dark site a number of deep sky objects are visible to the naked eye. M31 for sure, M33, M13, quite a few open clusters — Pleades M45 of course, Praespe. Just off the top of my head, probably quite a few more…
With just 10×50 binnoculars you can see more than 80 of the Messier objects.