Sun in White Light and Calcium K With Explore Scientific AR152 + Lunt CaK filter or Baader Wedge Uploaded 11/1/15 Daily Report
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WHITE LIGHT:
Lets start with prime focus, the lowest magnification my six inch gives. While I cant quite get the whole sun in on one shot, both halves can be seen here. East is to the left. The large drawn out sunspot is huge! I will see if it is visible with my eclipse glasses with no telescope.
On the west side of the disk, we have a very nice group on the right of smaller spots, and a tiny chain in the middle
2.5x barlow shots.
Seeing was just horrible. 1/5 at best. I didnt push it too much at first and stopped the six inch down to a 4 inch to clarify the image. Here is the big group close up:
I really liked the smaller group too, like a parallelagram.
And of course the tiny chain in the center of the Sun:
5x barlow shots
Seeing improved momentarily, and I pulled off the stop for the full six inches. This sunspot takes up the entire frame!
Some Calcium K shots
As you know, Calcium K is a wave band in the near Ultra Violet and is not visible to the eye. But it records some fantastic structures around the big sunspot:
And the smaller group near the limb really comes to life in Calcium:
