Sun Ha 26/05/2020

Another big prominence, with some nice detail.

Scope: Coronado PST
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: Altair Astro 290 M3
Processed with Registax 6, combined and colourised in Photoshop Elements and rescaled from 541 x 276 to 2164 x 1104 using 'A Sharper Scaling' ( a-sharper-scaling.com )

Sun Ha 17/05/2020

Another solar image in Ha.

The height of the prominence at the bottom is about 9 times the diameter of the Earth and about 8% the diameter of the Sun.

Scope: Coronado PST
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: Altair Astro 290 M3
Processed with Registax 6, combined and colourised in Photoshop Elements.

Sun in Hydrogen Alpha Today

There were several prominences visible today, the images show the most impressive.

Scope: Coronado PST
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: Altair Astro 290 M3
Processed with Registax 6, combined and colourised in Photoshop Elements.

 North

South

A collage showing changes in the structure of the North prominence.

Half Moon and Venus on Friday

Here are a couple of images taken on Friday May 1st.

The Moon looks particularly good, not much to see on Venus but it is a rather nice crescent.

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro (Moon image)
Scope: Celestron C8 (Venus Image)
Mount: Sky Watcher NEQ6 Pro
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Software: AltairCapture, Registax 6, Photoshop Elements.

 Both images stacked from 60 second 8fps videos.