Category: Solar Telescope - My Stardust Observatory

~ The Sun with sunspots AR3483 & AR3477 on 11th November 2023 ~

11/11/2023

I was lucky to captured some pictures of the Sun before cloud rolled in late this afternoon.

Looking through the (Ha) Lunt solar telescope there were quite a lot of filaments on the surface plus some nice prominences around the limb

Through the white light refractor you could Sunspot groups AR3483 & AR3477 very clearly heading toward the western limb.

White light image taken with 80mm Skywatcher telescope fitted with a glass solar filter and Canon 700D camera, exposure time was 1/500th second and ISO200.

(Ha) image taken with 60mm Lunt solar telescope and Canon 700D camera, exposure time was 1/320th second, ISO200 for disc and 1/25th second and ISO 200 for faint prominences, images stacked in RegiStax6 and combined in PS.

~ A quite Sun today on the 29th October 2023 ~

10/30/2023

The Sun is very quite on the surface at the moment with only a couple of very small sunspots as seen looking through my white light telescope. But looking through the Lunt (Ha) solar telescope was Wow… on show were dark filaments, prominences around the limb and a little bit of activity around that small sunspot AR 3372 :-)

White light image taken with 80mm Skywatcher telescope and Canon 700D camera, (Ha) image taken with 60mm Lunt solar telescope and Canon 700D camera, images stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PS.

(Ha) Sun with many large filaments on the surface 13th September 2023

9/14/2023

The Sun looked very nice late yesterday afternoon with quite a lot of dark filaments on the surface. There were only a couple of small prominences around the limb.

Images were taken with a Lunt 60mm (PT) solar telescope and Canon 700D camera :-)

~ (Ha) Sun with crescent filament and jet prominences on eastern limb ~

7/28/2023

Yay! It finally cleared up late yesterday afternoon so I could have a look at the Sun and what did I see but three very thin active jet prominences shooting out from the eastern limb. It was quite fascinating to watch but after about 20 minutes they died down and faded away!

There was also quite a large active prominence on the lower western limb and that very large crescent shape filament on the solar surface is an interesting feature to observe :-)

Images were captured on the 28th July 2023 with Lunt 60mm PT solar scope and Canon 700D camera with 2x Barlow lens attached. 20 images were captured one set for the solar disc and one set for the faint prominences and combined in PS CS4.

~ Our Amazing Sun with active prominences & sunspots 8th July 2023 ~

7/8/2023

Solar observing is so thrilling at the moment you never know what you are going to see, this afternoon I saw beautiful prominences all around the limb, sunspots sprinkled all over the surface and some lovely wiggly filaments…. what more could you ask for with our Amazing Sun :-)

Images captured with a Lunt 60mm PT solar scope and a Canon 700D camera with a 2x Barlow lens attached. 25 images were captured for each set, one set for the solar disc and one set for the faint prominences and combined in PS CS4.

~ Very active prominences on limb of the Sun on 24th June 2023 ~

6/24/2023

How exciting…there were a couple of very large and active prominences around the limb of the Sun late this afternoon, I just managed to capture them before the Sun went down :-)

The images were captured with a Lunt 60mm PT solar scope and a Canon 700D camera with a 2x Barlow lens attached. 25 images were captured one set for the solar disc and one set for the faint prominences and combined in PS CS4.

~ Wow! Some very active prominences on the Sun in (Ha)~

5/12/2023

It was very exciting observing the Sun late yesterday afternoon, as there were some very large active prominences around the solar limb.

The one on the northern limb was very fine and looked like it may take off and detach, the other two on the western limb were starting to interact with one another and connect.

And to make it more interesting there was another very large active prominence showing itself on the eastern limb…There was also a lot flaring around those two large sunspots AR3296 & AR329 on the solar surface Wow, it’s all very exciting now as we head toward solar maximum!

The images were captured with a Lunt 60mm solar scope and a Canon 700D camera with a 2x Barlow lens attached. 20 images were captured one set for the solar disc and one set for the faint prominences and combined in PS CS4.

(Ha) Sun with active sunspots AR3288 & AR3285 plus Solar Prominences

5/1/2023

On the first day of May there were a few active prominences firing away around the limb of the sun with a nice little arch prominence to the south that was interesting to watch as it wavered in space.

There was also some solar flare activity around those active sunspots with a new one coming into view on the eastern edge, now designated AR3293.

The images were captured with a Lunt 60mm solar scope and a Canon 700D camera with a 2x Barlow lens attached. 30 images were captured one set for the solar disc and one set for the faint prominences and combined in PS CS4.

~ The (Ha) Sun on the 26th February 2023 ~

2/26/2023

~ The (Ha) Sun with solar filaments, sunspots and active prominences on 26th February 2023 ~

On the 25th February a magnetic filament connected to sunspot AR3229 near the northern limb of the sun erupted producing a reaction of events that could lead to a geomagnetic storm on Earth in the next couple of days. (Information from Spaceweather.com)

This is image of the Sun in (Ha) on the 26th February with some of that activity still present on the surface with prominences around the solar limb and some dark filaments on the surface.

There was also activity around AR 3234 to the north in the middle of the Sun and another area in the south AR 3236.

This image was taken with my Lunt 60mm solar telescope with a Canon 700D camera. The colour image is a composite with two sets of exposures to capture the disc and the faint prominences that were combined in PS; the exposures were 1/320th and ISO 100.

The monochrome image was taken with an exposure of 1/200th and ISO800.

Credit: NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory
https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov

~ Solar flare eruption from AR 3217 on eastern limb 11th February 2023 ~

2/11/2023

~ Solar flare AR3217 ~

While observing the Sun early yesterday morning I saw a sudden brightening from sunspot AR 3217 that produced a solar flare. It didn’t last for very long, but I managed capture it, the previous image taken in monochrome just 5 minutes before do not have that bright activity.

There were also quite a few active prominences all around the limb with a small looping prominence not far from AR 3217, the Suns so exciting to observe at the moment as we head toward solar maximum.

Images taken with a Lunt (PT) 60mm solar telescope, Canon 700D camera with a 2x Barlow lens attached. Twenty images were capture with an exposure of 1/200th second and ISO200. Images stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PS. Monochrome images, exposure time was 1/125th second and ISO800 with the same processing.

The white light image was taken with a Canon 70D camera and Canon 100-400mm lens with 2x teleconverter making a focal length of 1280mm, a glass solar filter was fitted to lens for safe viewing and imaging.