Saturday 3 December 2011

Journal Entry Nov 30th 2011 - Sun viewing

The clouds are clearing!

There was news of a huge CME erruption on Nov 26th inspired me to get a picture of the sun as soon as the clouds and fog clears. At last I got my chance.

Equipment:
Astrotrac in Sun tracking mode
70/420mm APO ED Refractor
Sun mask made from Baader Astrosolar filter foil
Astrodon Photometrics V filter
Astronomy camera DBK41AU02AS by ImagingSource

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Weather:
8 degreesC
92% Humidity
1021 hPa
patches of cumulus cloud and some high level sirus cloud with patch of blue sky

 Images:

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Pictures each stacked and processed with Registax6 from 200 frames. Left or top image has exposure time of 1/2500 sec and Right or bottom image has 1/2000 sec exposure time. Darks and Flats subtracted.

Here's a labelled image.



Ref:
Spaceweather Nov 30

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