I've been looking forward to today as 1) it's saturday and 2) it was supposed to be crystal clear according to all forecasts. See how I threw the word "was" into that? Yeah, so you can correctly assume it really wasn't.Well, not too bad, just not a cold, crisp, clear day. Still a fair amount of humidity in the air, which lent a bit of a haze to the sky.
Do you know what I've noticed since I began my adventures with ol' Sol about four years ago? Just how much it sinks to the south in winter. I know why, but until I began looking at/photographing it in white light, I never realized just how much!
Yup, the winter solstice will be an all-time low for the Sun... I know, that was bad
Even though I knew it wasn't the best of conditions out, I had nothing better to do at about 10:30 this morning, so I took 20 shots with my Canon T2i in a C80-HD with Baader film, and processed with PIPP, AS3 and ImPPG. You can see AR2787, 86, 85 and 83 from left to right; AR2786 being the big one. Not my best, but I haven't seen this much activity on the Sun at once since 2017. Let the good times roll! I was hoping to catch the Sun later in the day, but the haze thickened up and took care of that.
The rest of the day I did pretty much nothing and enjoyed it immensely. After dinner I figured I should go retrieve my scope which was still sitting outside. Since the Moon was up in the east, I thought why not? and got my camera. It's at 98% full; not an easy target, but it came out OK. I used ISO 400 and 1/640th sec exposure.
This is done with Registax, which, in colour, shows off the nice cheesy
And that's been my day. Later I'm going to go start watching season 3 of the X-Files; for some reason I've been bingeing (or binging; seems both are right) on it at night after work/dinner. I remember watching it when it came out every Friday night.
I would like to be outside, but the skies started with the clouds after the Moon pics, and even if it was clear the Moon kinda ruins it at this phase. TV it is!
Have a good day/night and all the best,