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Date:28th April 2007 1604
Telescope:6inch f15 achromat + 2.5x Powermate, with Daystar ATM .6A H alpha filter
Camera:Lumenera 075M
This is the actual laptop view during capture. You can see the "seeing" dropping out occasionally, but it is really rather good. The important thing is that the image is also rigid, in that it is not rippling or expanding and contracting. Registax can cope with the atmospheric jitter that you can see. The final processed version is further down this page, it is made up of several overlapping AVI runs, to increase the field of view.
The Kookaburra and the Koala
Date:30th April 2007 14:53 ut
Telescope:6" f15 @f30 with Daystar .6A filter
Camera:Lumenera 075M
Another showing the progress of spot 0953. The associated filament is starting to build. Click on any of the images to enlarge.
Spots 0953 and 0954
Date:29th April 2007 15:50 ut
Telescope:6"f15 stopped to 3"
Camera:Lumenera 075M .6A Daystar ATM
This wide field montage shows both 0953 and 0954. The Ha disturbance is quite extensive around the spot.
Spot 0953
Date:28th April 2007 15:05 ut
Telescope:6" achromat at f30
Camera:Lumenera 075M in Daystar .6A Ha filter
My favourite image of this very photogenic spot, captured in a moment of good seeing.
Spot 0953
Date:28th April 2007 10:59 ut
Telescope:6" f15 stopped to 3" ( the Daystar runs at f30)
Camera:Lumenera 075M in Daystar .6A filter
This wide field shot also shows 0954 region.
Sunspot 0953
Date:26th April 2007 1216 ut
Telescope:6"f15 plus 2x Powermate
Camera:Lumenera 075M .6A Daystar filter
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Sunspot 0953
Date:26th April 2007 1216 ut
Telescope:6"f15 stopped to 3"
Camera:Lumenera 075M .65A Daystar filter
This spot had just come on to the solar disc. I was testing my older .65 Angstrom Daystar ATM Ha filter
A spectacular chain of prominences
Date:15th April 2007 08:11 ut
Telescope:C-14 @ F/40
Camera:Lumenera 075M in Daystar filter
An interesting daisy chain of different prominences.
Another Nice Prominence
Date:14th April 2007 09:23 ut
Telescope:6" f15@ f30
Camera:Lumenera 075M and Daystar Ha filter
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Cat on a hot tin roof
Date:8th April 2007
Telescope:6inch achromat@ f30
Camera:Lumenra 075M Daystar Ha filter
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A coloured version of the image below
Date:5th April 2007 09:02 ut
Telescope:6 inch f15 Achromat at f30 with Daystar ATM.6A Ha filter
Camera:Lumenera 075M
The red colour was added to this image, to show how the prominence appeared in the eyepiece with the Ha filter.
Spectacular Solar Prominence
Date:5th April 2007 09:02 ut
Telescope:6 inch f15 Achromat, with Daystar ATM .6A Ha filter
Camera:Lumenera 075 Mono
Even at "Solar Minimum" the sun can yield some fascinating phenomena.
A spectacular filament, imaged in fair seeing.