Sun in CaK / White Light
Stellarvue SV80s  & ES AR152
+ Lunt CaK filter and Baader Wedge
Uploaded 12/30/15

Daily Report
For Wednesday, Dec 30
 
 Seeing
            this week has been very bad, and today the wind has died down
            and we had better, but still poor seeing (1.5/5) for the morning
            solar shooting session. Today I used the two refractors for white
            light and Calcium K imaing with our DMK51 camera.
 
Images below are 1024 wide and non clickable
 

            
 WHITE
            LIGHT:

            
Lets
            start with the full disk with the 80mm:

            


            
With
            only one sunspot group, the close up was right on the limb at
            5x - about 5 meters focal length. Seeing was not quite good enough
            to show clear granulation.

            


            
Lets
            now look in Calcium K light, the full disk Now back to the 80mm
            with the Lunt filter B600:

            


            
A
            bit more interesting with the plague visible. The close up with
            the AR152 was a study in really bad seeing!

            


            
Finally,
            a lone prom on the limb - washed out because my calcium filter
            has a lot of internal ghosting. But it is a nice arch!

            

Instruments:  Lunt LS100THa Halpha or SV80S with Zeiss Apochromat
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200
Camera:  DMK 3U (1024x768)
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 7/10, Transparency 9/10
Outside Temperature: 45F
Processing: Registax 6, Photoshop CS2

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