Sun in HAlpha / White Light
With Lunt LS100THa / Stellarvue - Zeiss SV80s 
+  Baader Wedge
Uploaded 2/8/14

Weekend Report
For the weekend of February 8, 2014
 

            
 Only hours
            before the large sunspot group AR1967 moved off the limb, I took
            these shots of the departing region. The spot was concluding
            its second traverse of the solar disk, and in two weeks, it could
            be back again coming onto the eastern limb ready for more flaring
            action!

            
Seeing was very
            poor and shakey. 1.5 / 5 today, with a front moving in later.
 
Images below are 800-1290 wide and non clickable
 

            
 WHITE
            LIGHT:

            
Full Disk with
            80mm, the departing limb is on the right

            


            
Same scope,
            but with Hbeta filter instead of a Baader continuum filter as
            above which is a green colored filter, while Hbeta is blue.

            


            
5x view with
            the 80mm

            


            
Hydrogen
            Alpha Images with the Lunt 100:

            
Full disk with
            .5x Antares focal reducer

            
 

            


            
These close
            ups now are with a 3x barlow:

            


            


            


            



Instruments:  Lunt LS100THa Halpha or Explore Scientific AR152
 orSV80S with Zeiss Apochromat
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200
Camera:  DMK 51 USB
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 2/5, Transparency 9/10
Outside Temperature: 52F
Processing: Autostakkert 2,  Photoshop CS2

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