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The sun, loop prominence on southwest Limb

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

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.

Solar active regions 10988 and 10989

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Image of active regions 10989 (lower left) and 10988 (top center) in h-alpha about 3:20 pm MDT.


Image taken with Solarscope Ltd. 50mm h-alpha telescope, Televue 2.5X Powermate, DMK 21AF04.AS camera 1/500 sec, 60 fps. Sky was clear, 5 mph wind, temperature 68 °F, turbulence about 6/10, transparency very good, location Louisville, CO.

The sun in h-alpha on March 29

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Here is the full disk image of the sun in h-alpha, not oriented. North pole of the sun is to the upper left.

50mm Solarscope Ltd H-alpha Telescope, DMK 21AF04.AS video camera, 1/10000 sec shutter, at 60fps. Sky was clear, 5 mph wind, temperature 68 °F, turbulence about 6/10, transparency very good, location Louisville, CO.

Sun in H-alpha March 25, 2008

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

The sun about 2:06 pm this afternoon in h-alpha. Solarscope 50m, DMK 21AF04.AS camera 1/10000 sec, 60 fps, 1 minute video. Mosaic of 4 images.
Sun in h-alpha on March 25, 2008 at 2:06 pm

Sky clear, no wind, turbulence about 5/10, temperature 65 °F.

Movin spots…

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

While imaging the Sun this morning, I caught a couple satellites crossing the field, here is one of them. Satellite was in 17 frames, I’ve only included 3 frames of it below. Webcam set at 20 fps, time was 11:17:30 to 11:17:31 am MDT.

Sun and satellite.