I got home today at just after 1:30PM. Start early, finish early
One of the advantages to my job is I do it as I see fit; and with the lousy weather at night and the clear skies in the day I have had for the past few months, my early mornings have enabled me to get home at a good hour and have a good look at Solar Cycle 25 coming to life in the afternoon. There is so much activity happening on our star right now!No matter what type of scope you have, you can make/buy at least a white-light solar filter for it for very little money. I love looking at stars at night that are light-years away, and in the day, there's one that's only 93 million miles (150 million Km's) away from us, with an ever changing surface for probably the next ~11 years that will give a lot of detail in even just white-light.
Here's the Sun from today, the best 10 shots from 20 taken with my C80-HD, Baader solar film, and Canon EOS 550D at ISO 100 and 1/250th sec exp. Aligned with PIPP, stacked with AS3!, and some mild tweaking with ImPPG and
Full size image here
And the annotations for the spots:
That was then, now it's 6 hours later and the humidity is unreal.
It's pouring out now, and we're under a tornado watch. I'll see what it's like tomorrow morning when I leave here hopefully at 5AM...
Have a good night all,
