Threesome sunspots

There are three larger spots and one smaller one in the Sun now.

Equipment: Skywatcher EVOSTAR ED80 Pro ED APO 80/600mm, Imaging Source DMK 41AU02, Baader Herschel Prism, Tele Vue 4x Powermate 2", Canon 60Da, IDAS LPS-P2 EOS, Baader 10nm Solar Continuum filter (CWL 540nm) 2", Baader ND 3.0 filter 2", Baader K-Line double stacked 1.25", Baader AstroSolar ND 3.8, Astrotrac TT320X-AG with TW3100 wedge.

Two Messier objects

These are my first CCD-images ever:

Equipment: Ikharos 102/717mm. Starlight Xpress SXVR-H18 (-10C), TS 200mm + SX Lodestar autoguider, Astronomik Typ IIc L-RGB, SX FW, HEQ-5 EQDIR pulseguiding, Light frames total 40 min. (luminance 10x1min bin 1x1, RGB each 10x1min bin 2x2). Image acquisition and dithering with MaxImDL Pro, calibration and stacking in CCDStack, LRGB-channel combine, crop and finishing in Photoshop.

White Sun

Actually sunlight's colour is more into white than yellow. Anyway the Sun is classified as yellowish star.

Equipment: Ikharos 102/717, Canon 5Dmk2, Solar Filter, HEQ-5.

New sunspot

AR1793 is the newest and also the biggest sunspot we see in the Sun at the moment.

Equipment: Ikharos 102/717, Imaging Source DMK 41AU02, Baader Herschel Prism, Tele Vue 4x Powermate 2", Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Baader 10nm Solar Continuum Filter (CWL 540nm), Baader ND 3.0 filter 2", Solar Filter, HEQ-5.

Sun in H-alfa

This one was the only picture I shoot today.

Equipment: Lunt LS35TH-alfa, Imaging Source DMK 41AU02, Astrotrac TT320X-AG.

Some shots

Here are the shots I took yesterday and today.

AR1758 to be disappearing soon

These are the last days to see it.

Equipment: Ikharos 102/717, Lunt LS60THa, Imaging Source DMK 41AU02, Baader Herschel Prism, Tele Vue 4x Powermate 2", Baader 10nm Solar Continuum Filter (CWL 540nm), Baader K-Line double stacked 1.25", Baader ND 3.0 filter 2", Solar Filter, HEQ-5.

AR1758 again

Equipment: Skywatcher EVOSTAR ED80 Pro ED APO 80/600mm, Imaging Source DMK 41AU02, Baader Herschel Prism, Tele Vue 4x Powermate 2", Canon 60Da, IDAS LPS-P2 EOS, Baader 10nm Solar Continuum filter (CWL 540nm) 2", Baader ND 3.0 filter 2", Baader K-Line double stacked 1.25", Baader AstroSolar ND 3.8, Astrotrac TT320X-AG with TW3100 wedge.

AR1785 revisited

First image here (AR1785) shows some interesting details of this large active region.

Equipment: Ikharos 102/717, Lunt LS60THa, Imaging Source DMK 41AU02, Baader Herschel Prism, Tele Vue 4x Powermate 2", Canon 5D Mark II, Baader 10nm Solar Continuum Filter (CWL 540nm), Solar Filter, ND Filter, HEQ-5.

AR1785

This region is quite large and spreading around into smaller pieces at the moment.

Skywatcher EVOSTAR ED80 Pro ED APO 80/600mm, Canon 60Da, IDAS LPS-P2 EOS, Baader 10nm Solar Continuum Filter (CWL 540nm), Astrotrac TT320X-AG.

Sun in infrared light

I tested what does Sun look like as seen in infrared light? Well, here is the result.

IR Pass:

K-Line:

Solar Continuum:

Sunspots:

Equipment: Skywatcher EVOSTAR ED80 Pro ED APO 80/600mm, Imaging Source DMK 41AU02, Baader Herschel Prism, Baader IR Pass filter, Tele Vue 4x Powermate 2", Canon 60Da, IDAS LPS-P2 EOS, Baader Solar Continuum 2", Solar Filter ND 3.8, Astrotrac TT320X-AG.