THE SOLAR DISK IN H-ALPHA LIGHT : see also time-lapse animations
- 2014 Video Star Party (July 31-August 3), Johnstown, Ontario, Canada : the following solar images were focused using a MallinCam Digital View Finder - which allows more precise focusing than generally achievable using a laptop or monitor screen in sunlight ...
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SSIm on Coronado SM II 90 @ f/8.8 3 stacks of 6 x 1ms frames, 2014 Video Star Party, Johnstown, Ontario, Canada, August 1st, 2014 ...
- The above sequence spans ~6 hours and clearly shows the inflation and collapse of a major plage complex that appears to correlate with a major chromospheric excursion recorded that day
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SSIm on Coronado SM II 90 @ f/8.8 : 2 stacks of 6 x 1ms frames, 2014 Video Star Party, Johnstown, Ontario, Canada, August 1st, 2014 ...
- Looking into the depths of the chromosphere : sunspots, plages, filaments, swirly (distorted) and undisturbed mega-granulation
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SSIm on Coronado SM II 90 @ f/8.8 : stack of 5 x 1ms frames, 2015 Video Star Party, Johnstown, Ontario, Canada - July 11th, 2015 ...
- Active spiral magnetic field around a well defined sunspot.
SSIm on Coronado SM II 90 @ f/8.8 : stack of 5 x 1ms frames, 2018 Video Star Party, Johnstown, Ontario, Canada - August 4th, 2018 ...
- "Rosette" structure cored by a complex plage. Granulation and mega-granulation are readily apparent.
DS287m on Coronado SM II 90 @ f/8.8 : stack of 5 x 0.6ms frames, 2019 Video Star Party, Johnstown, Ontario, Canada - August 1st, 2019.
- Granulation and mega-granulation are readily apparent.
SSIm on Coronado SM II 90 @ f/8.8 : stack of 10 x 5ms frames,Downtown Ottawa, November 7th 2020 ...
- At last ... the first sunspot group of the new solar cycle after a long "drought/famine" !!
SOLAR PROMINENCES IN H-ALPHA LIGHT
SSIm on Coronado SM II 90 @ f/8.8
- a series of single 10ms frames, August 1st, 2014 ... evolution of a small, but complex prominence over a ~6 hour period
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SSIm on 6" SCT @ f/10 : single 20ms frame, April 6th 2014 ... H-Alpha using 1000 Oaks system
- "Cathedral Arch" prominence in upper chromosphere
DS287m on Coronado SM II 90 @ f/8.8 : single 15ms frame, 2019 Video Star Party, Johnstown, Ontario, Canada - August 1st, 2019.
- Prominence arch on an otherwise very quiet Sun.
SUN IN WHITE LIGHT
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SSIm on 6" SCT @ f/10 : single 1ms frame ... I forget the details for the second image !
- Sunspot groups, granulation. faculae and limb darkening
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Kitchen colander used as a multi-pinhole camera : solar eclipse, August 2017.
Sun Ring : April 2018
Sun Ring : April 2018
MOON
- SSIm on 120mm refractor @ f/7.5, unless otherwise indicated
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Sky Raider DS10cTEC on 8 inch SCT @ f/5 + UHC filter : single 1.9 millisecond frame, unbinned, high conversion gain, no darks or flats, February 18th 2019
DS297m 0n EVOGuide 50 refractor - Moon @ 0.5ms_@ minimum Gain and default C&G DB1 PS16
MARS
- SSIm on 120mm refractor, f/7.5 x 2.5 barlow, unless otherwise indicated
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Mars - Downtown Ottawa with terrible seeing, October 8th, 2020
JUPITER
- SSIm on 120mm refractor, f/7.5 x 2.5 barlow, unless otherwise indicated
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SSIm on 10" SCT @ f/10 : January, 2014
