A week off and a good start to it!

[Thefatkitty]

Hey everyone, hope all is good

I'm on vacation this coming week and the wait is over for that. Headed out at a bit after 5am and was done and home by just after 1PM. This morning when the Sun rose the sky was crystal clear. However, I guess the cloud gods saw me heading home...

Still, there was some blue sky holes in the clouds, and once again, patience is your friend

I took out my C80-HD, Baader solar film and my Canon EOS 550D. I shot 20 frames at ISO 100 at 1/250 sec exp, then took 10 shots at ISO 200 and 1/200th sec exposure. The ISO 200 shots worked out a lot better from my normal ISO 100. Hmmm. The resulting stack/sharpening from PIPP, AS3, ImPPG and PS 2020 was somewhat 'clearer'. You know one thing I'll be doing next week; playing around with camera settings!

So here is my take on ol' Sol today; 5 or maybe 6 spots.

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Alrighty, time for bed. My last "huzzah" for the day

All the best,

[SpyderwerX]

Nice images as always, Mark. Enjoy the time off, my friend.

[Lady Fraktor]

Very nice posting Mark and enjoy the vacation

[messier 111]

Vers nice images , enjoy the time off, thx

[notFritzArgelander]

Good images and have a happy hiatus!

[TheButcher]

Excellent Mark and have a Great time off!

[Butterfly Maiden]

Lovely images again Mark.

Enjoy your well-earned holiday / vacation :smile:

[Juno16]

Hi Mark,

Very nice images and have a super week!

Any plans for imaging?

[Thefatkitty]

Nice images as always, Mark. Enjoy the time off, my friend.

Thanks buddy, I sure will! And BTW, it's great to see you back on here

Very nice posting Mark and enjoy the vacation

Thanks Gabrielle, and I can finally have some down time to catch up with you. Methinks I'll be doing a lot of typing this week, as well as some early morning observing; what with everything that's up at 4AM...

Talk to you soon

Vers nice images , enjoy the time off, thx

Merci, mon ami! Funny, I was thinking of taking a run out to Montreal to visit some family, but I have enough to do here.

I still have a week of time off left....

Good images and have a happy hiatus!

I thank you sir One of the things I want to do is catch up on some of your posts; being up at 5AM leaves me with reading your posts at about 7PM. Not good; I need to be awake for those!

Hope all is well with you and yours

Excellent Mark and have a Great time off!

Thanks much and oh yeah I will!! There will probably be beer involved...

Lovely images again Mark.

Enjoy your well-earned holiday / vacation :smile:

Thanks Vanessa, and have you gotten your first paycheque yet? Hope all's good with you and Sophie, and nice to see you put your website in your sig file!

Talk to you soon

Hi Mark,

Very nice images and have a super week!

Any plans for imaging?

Jim!!! Very nice to hear from you! Hope all is good with you, the missus and Jack Any new puppies to take care of lately?

As for imaging, not sure. Probably the Sun, but I think I'm going to get out my orange-tube C80 and my 10" and do some early morning observing. It's been over a year since I've done that, and before the temps start dropping to single digits...

However, weather permitting, I might take a run up the highway north; I know a few good spots. I really want to take this out for a whirl; I made it about two years ago and have used it twice here, though not with the clearest skies. Not very good looking to be sure, but the tracking was spot-on over two minutes; I wouldn't mind trying 3 to even maybe 10 minutes with it.
Manually driven, but one Mississippi, two Mississippi works quite well

Thanks for the comments all, and to my other posts as well. It's really not been a good month for the three of us for reasons I won't post here, but being on here and reading all your posts and replies to mine has been a great diversion; thank you.

Really, you gotta love astronomy (day or night), this forum and all the good people on it. So good for the soul

And BTW, depending on my weather, you might possibly get a flood of posts from me next week. Prepare yourselves...

All the best,

[Bigzmey]

Good start to vacation Mark! I hope you will have lots of fun.

My one week off is almost over, I am going back to work on Monday. Can't complain though managed three observing sessions.

[Butterfly Maiden]

Lovely images again Mark.

Enjoy your well-earned holiday / vacation :smile:

Thanks Vanessa, and have you gotten your first paycheque yet? Hope all's good with you and Sophie, and nice to see you put your website in your sig file!

Talk to you soon

Thanks for the comments all, and to my other posts as well. It's really not been a good month for the three of us for reasons I won't post here, but being on here and reading all your posts and replies to mine has been a great diversion; thank you.

Really, you gotta love astronomy (day or night), this forum and all the good people on it. So good for the soul

And BTW, depending on my weather, you might possibly get a flood of posts from me next week. Prepare yourselves...

All the best,

Not got a paycheque yet mark - I haven't earned it yet

Sophia is good, thank you for asking.

I felt it was easier to put all my walking photos in my own website, rather than cluttering up the Forum. So if anyone is interested they can click the link at their leisure.

I am pleased that members' posts are keeping your spirits up - that is what friends are for :smile:

I am quite certain that your 'flood of posts' will be very welcome, so go for it

Have a great time and all the best to your family.