Sun in Hydrogen Alpha Light

With Coronado PST

Uploaded 1/23/11

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 The sun today is showing a nice three spot group with plenty of faculae action around it to add interest. High winds made imaging very difficult, so I took 5000 frames and set it for the best 500 to stack.

Instrument: Coronado PST 40mm w/2x barlow Platform: Astrophysics 1200 Camera: DMK 1024 Location: Payson, Arizona Elevation: 5150 ft. Sky: Seeing 1/10, Transparency 8/10 Outside Temperature: 35F Processing: Registax, Photoshop CS HOME SCHMIDT GALAXIES EMISSION NEBS REFLECTION NEBS COMETS GLOBULARS OPEN CLUST PLANETARIES LINKS