05/10/24 Sun in CaK

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Hey all :D

Not the greatest weather today, but I really wanted to have a gander at AR3664. Clouds and a bit of rain when I got in at one. The rain stopped at about three, and I could see some blue sky between the slow moving clouds. I set up, cracked a beer and waited. And waited, had another beer, and then about 4PM I took 500 frames. My sky just afterwards I did all that, the Sun is the green dot to the upper middle on the right in amongst the tree branches.

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My usual thing is to get 2000 frames and process the SER file in AS3. Today, I ran the 500 frame SER file through PIPP and converted it to TIFF files. Not much to work with here. From that, I stacked the best 5 frames in AS3. It's not good by any means and adding colour made it worse so I didn't go there, but it gives you an idea of just how big this AR is.

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Tomorrow I'm supposedly in for "partly sunny" in the morning with rain in the afternoon. So often the forecast is wrong; we shall see!

Have a good day/night everyone!
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Not any better in Ohio either. We have blue skies filled with great big fluffy clouds. The chances of seeing the Northern Lights tonight is pretty slim.
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Well worth the wait Mark and you got to enjoy a couple of beers !! Great job 3664 is a beast .
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Nice AR3664 & disc, cool you got to gander the opportunity, for me its Sat or on the limb Sunday at least thats the better forecast,

I began early thursday rearranging my sleep patterns for the incoming storms so I would be up at night to bear witness and maybe catch an image of two, clear here now so we'll see !
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very nice disc , thx Mark .
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Nice job Mark. I hope the weather holds out for me this weekend.
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I set the 4 inch up with a white light filter to see what was going on up there. That huge sun spot was on the otherside of the fov around noon today
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