Viewing With Solar Telescopes: September 2013

Monday, September 30, 2013

September 30, 2013

I have one image from today's effort so far. Like Mike I had high winds to deal with. Here is AR1850 at the limb.

AR1850 Close Up

I'm having a hard time salvaging many images due to the windy conditions. this is quite frustrating because the seeing was the best that i have had in sometime. :-(
AR1855 in the southern hemisphere midway across the solar disk.

Prom's on the NW Limb.

Proms at SE Limb.

Another prom

Not great results but tomorrow promises to be a better day. Clear, no wind.

Sept 30 Full Disk

It was very windy and the clouds did not break up until the end of the day , There were no clear spots only hazy clearings . I heard through the grapevine that Bill would be out with Cloudbuster so hopefully he will be along with some closer views from today . I chose to leave the long tube in the garage and just try to grab a full disk . This was shot through a lot of haze but turned out better than I expected .

Sunday, September 29, 2013

My good friend Bill has generously offered to share this blog with me. . One of our goals is to be able to offer images as close to a daily basis as the clouds will allow . We will also offer information about our modded solar scopes and what we use to take the images you will see here . We are pooling our resources to try to bring you some closer views of our nearest star and to keep as close to a daily record of the events that happen up there as we can . We hope you enjoy what you see .

best regards
Mike Bridges

Now on with some images !

A full disk from Sept 28