This space is gatherin dust rapidly... If I dont get involved in solar in some form soon I'll be closing up shop... if you are a random person who just happens to read this and wants me to start updating again drop me a line and let me know... but I would guess there are a total of 1 person including myself that check this...
So - I nearly did it....
I came *this* close to selling all my gear and going solar... but I decided not to as I would have taken a huge loss...
BUT!!! I am getting back into it in a way... in the next month or so I will be getting some Baader Solar Film for my scopes and can do some white-light work... its not as cool as H-Alpha, but it gets me back in the game cheaply...
So - I should be posting again in a few weeks - hopefully!!!!
Can't bring myself to close up shop here...
I just LOVE solar... man I wish it wasnt so expensive... Considering a smaller scope, but I know that wont do it for me...
We shall see...
No solar for the foreseeable future...
I sold my solar scope a while back and am focusing primarily on nighttime observing. I may bring the solar side of things back down the road, but for now I barely have time to update my regular site, and this blog is sadly neglected... Ill leave the posts here for now, look for updates in a month or so as to whether this blog will continue or not.
Some updates will be coming shortly..
Sorry for the lack of updates recently - life happens... Need to spend some time back on the solar side of things. I was doing a lot of testing with imaging on my "night" scope.
Some new solar activity today 1-5-12
David M. posted some great images of some new activity starting up today.
Updates from the last couple of days..
Sorry folks - I got a bit sidetracked with the holidays - but lets recap a bit.
Matt Wastell posted a nice full disc showing all the recent activity today:
Here is a disc shot taken with the DMK51 through the LS60 with high Gamma to bring out the disc proms. Quite a bit was going on today.
Hope the Sun is shining for you!
Andy Devey posted a nice animation of AR1635 on the 26th:
Had a chance to take a look at this AR between 12:10 and 13:26UT but the seeing was all over the place.
Alessandro Bianconi gave us a look at some very nice white-light detail on the 24th:
AR1635 2012.12.24
Celestron C14HD
Astrosolar AS3.8 Full Aperture
Basler acA640 mono
Seeing 4/10
Transp 9/10
Declination of the sun: -23°!
Ciao
Alessandro
Michael Buxton got an animation of a flare jumper on the 22nd:
hi folks
poor seeing and a short day, but i did catch a flare and jumper in AR1634/33. captured at 80 second intervals with a lunt 100 and a cemax barlow. trying 80 second intervals to increase the apparent speed...made from 2254-2322 UT on 22 Dec 2012
Some new hi-res images from Harald Paleske
More of his usual amazing work - from September through October
NASA SOHO Images
You may not be aware, but NASA has several dedicated Solar observing projects and "we the people" have full access to daily information.
Since the weather had been poor and all my imaging friends have not been able to post recently, I decide to feature some of these shots today. This is from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory .
The site is located at http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov
Here are real time images for today:
EIT 171
EIT 284
EIT 304
SDO/HMI Continuum image
Finally - Some updates!
Sorry for the long Hiatus! I had a lot of development with the new observatory and just general "Life" stuff going on....
Lets start with some full disc Whitelight from CN forum member steveward:
Warmer southerly breeze today brought its usual poor seeing with it , nice to be back in a T-shirt again though . .
"Shot 277 frames waiting for a "still" patch and eventually had a good run of 42 crisp ones . . ."
..and an Halpha full disc from CN member raylal:
Detail from same...
On to some nice CaK images and one Halpha from Pat Holland
"
I managed to get a few CaK and HA shots today, first time in over a month. For the CaK shots, I used the Celestron CR6 with the Lunt Bak1200 Straight-thru on the Orion Sirius Mount. These shots are the best 40% or 575 frames with the PGR Chameleon."
"And an HA shot with the Lunt TS60"
..and now a personal favorite - I love his work on these full discs - from December 9th - Jim Lafferty:
"Hi Folks--
After nearly a month I finally got some time away from my book and got out under the sun again! Here are some full disks in Ha on 12/9 with the Luntanado 100 and DMK 41 camera"