Sun in HAlpha
With Lunt LS100THa 
Uploaded 7/17/16

Daily Report
For Sunday, July 17th, 2016
 
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Images below are 1290 wide and non clickable
 

            
 Halpha:

            
Lets start with
            the full disk, without proms. This is with the .5x Antares focal
            reducer to get the entire solar disk to fit the chip:

            


            
Next the Proms
            are taken with a higher gamma to reveal thier extended nature:

            


            
Finally, Ive added
            both together in one composite:

            


            
The 3x Klee barlow
            is next inserted, for a close up of the active region on the
            disk, today a nice pair of larger sunspots:

            


            
Here is the same
            area in black and white, which may show more tonal detail:

            


            
Finally, a the
            red wing of Halpha, which is about 3/4 Angstrom off band toward
            the red. Here the white spots around the sunspots are Ellerman
            bombs, which are micro flares that can only be seein in the red
            or blue wings.

            


            
And the black and
            white version:

            



Instruments:  Lunt LS100THa Halpha
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200
Camera:  DMK 51
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 2/5, Transparency 5/10
Outside Temperature: 80F
Processing: Registax 6, Photoshop CS2

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