Pre-solar minimum

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Newcomers to solar imaging can be disappointed by the lack of action during our current solar-minimum cycle. Not-to-worry... It gets better. Right now, solar imaging is akin to fishing in a bathtub.

Here's a typical solar shot with a Lunt 60 taken when the fish were biting...

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Nice shot, and a reminder that white light solar is an exercise in futility with the approaching grand minimum.
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Great image!

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Lowjiber wrote: Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:42 pm
Right now, solar imaging is akin to fishing in a bathtub.

nice image

that's why all the solar heads are hibernating!!!
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