Sunday morning on 24th April was a very windy start to the day, so much so that I almost didn’t bother setting up. So there is no full disc image today but we do start with a nice capture of the northern hemisphere of our Sun showing a spread of active regions running east to […]

The haze that has been present these last few weeks lifted for a second day in a row allowing a nice morning observation session. My focus was to try some time lapses and to give the 5x TeleVue Powermate an outing but frankly this was pushing my 60mm Lunt beyond where it should be imaging. […]

Presented today are a small selection of images of our Sun that I captured on 20 April 2022. These are produced in RGB and monochrome depending on your taste buds! Here is the solar disc. This was captured using a TeleVue x2 Powermate and ZWO ASI174mm camera. Whilst it is a single image, it is […]

Here we have a small selection of images of our star captured on 19 March 2022. First we have the full solar disc revealing AR12971 on the west side of the disc (left), AR12967 and just to the east is AR12965 slowly drifting from view. Some nice filaments could be observed on the Chromosphere. Next […]

This first image is of the full solar disc revealing the active regions and some nice proms on the south west limb. Exposure time 5.5ms, gain 50. There are several small active regions on display along with some small prominences on the south east limb. Some small filaments are also present on the north and south regions of […]

Presented here is a selection of images captured during the morning of 17th March 2022. Currently I am working off my Celestron AVX mount as the Sun is still too low for me to use my polar aligned SkyWatcher EQ6R-Pro mount. The AVX is roughly polar aligned with an inclinometer and compass.  Last year I […]

A selection of images captured today using the Lunt 60mm DS THA/CPT B1200 scope along with the ASI174mm camera and accompanied by 2.5x and 4x Powermates. Unfortunately, I was not very accurate with the tuning of the double stack resulting in a partial shadow appearing on the eastern side of the full solar disc – […]

This was my first session imaging the Sun since August 2022. With our Sun now gradually rising over the flag poles and roof tops that dominate my view to the South, I managed to get a quick 5 minutes in before another roof interfered with the view. AR2954 (right) – Consists of a single spot […]

I hope it isn’t, but this could be my last solar image of 2021. The reason for this is my location as I live at the bottom of a hill which rises up to the South. As the Sun gets lower in the Autumn and Winter, trees and roof tops block my view. There are […]