June 23 solar chats,

[Tillibobs]

Delete this if I'm wrong but I haven't seen a new chat page for June,
Keith

[messier 111]

thx , same here .

[Gordon]

Someone has been slacking off...

Thanks for the catch Keith!

[Tillibobs]

In case you didn't know I'm trying to get back into solar imaging. Let's refresh your memory, I live in a 2nd floor apartment and have to do my viewing and imaging through the kitchen window so I'm restricted to certain time slots throughout the year. My Lunt60 gives me a nice crisp view but up to now I haven't managed to see the Sun in the live view of my Laptop. I have a couple of things to try out and it's a beautiful day, today will be the day !!!. Not so I'm afraid. I had a hospital appointment at lunchtime and decided to have a pub meal on the way home, I then did my favourite trick, fall asleep in a chair. Needless to say that by the time I woke up the Sun had been and gone as far as my time slot was concerned. Ah well tomorrow's forecast looks promising, fingers crossed.
Keith

[Gordon]

My sky has not been co-operating recently but yesterday I was able to grab a couple images.

[messier 111]

fine proms , thx .

[Tillibobs]

Nice captures Gordon.
Keith

[Thefatkitty]

@Tillibobs Keith, sorry to hear you missed your window...! I know what that's like for sure. Depending on the time of year, I'm good for 9-10AM and about 4-6PM in the summer. Winter is a bit better with no leaves on my trees, but the Sun is lower on the horizon.
I had to laugh in a nice way about you falling asleep, lord knows I've done that lately! Hope all was good with the hospital visit too. I sincerely hope you have better luck tomorrow!

@Gordon , nice images! I really like the proms and the detail you got on the surface, I can't wait to join into this. My ZWO ASI174MM showed up yesterday. Unfortunately, I can't make it out to Mike's place tomorrow to pick up my new scope Such is life.

However, the sky might be clear here, so I might try my new camera with my Baader Ca-K filter and W/O 61mm. We shall see.

@messier 111, Jean-Yves, I hope your skies have cleared; you had it so much worse from the fires than I did here!

Alrighty, a bit tired here, hope the weekend works out for us

[Graeme1858]

Now that I'm only working a 3 day week in lieu of retiring in August, I'm hoping to get to see some solar views and perhaps images too. Last week I put my solar filter over my binoculars and enjoyed a view of sunspots for the first time! Our friend Lowjiber donated some data once for the Processing Challenge and that was a fun exercise. I can see me getting into this once I get some of the "only just retired" jobs done.

Graeme

[Tillibobs]

Has anyone heard from Lowjiber or Ben Cartwright lately ?

[messier 111]

@Tillibobs Keith, sorry to hear you missed your window...! I know what that's like for sure. Depending on the time of year, I'm good for 9-10AM and about 4-6PM in the summer. Winter is a bit better with no leaves on my trees, but the Sun is lower on the horizon.
I had to laugh in a nice way about you falling asleep, lord knows I've done that lately! Hope all was good with the hospital visit too. I sincerely hope you have better luck tomorrow!

@Gordon , nice images! I really like the proms and the detail you got on the surface, I can't wait to join into this. My ZWO ASI174MM showed up yesterday. Unfortunately, I can't make it out to Mike's place tomorrow to pick up my new scope Such is life.

However, the sky might be clear here, so I might try my new camera with my Baader Ca-K filter and W/O 61mm. We shall see.

@messier 111, Jean-Yves, I hope your skies have cleared; you had it so much worse from the fires than I did here!

Alrighty, a bit tired here, hope the weekend works out for us

yes indeed the sky was filled with smoke, very unpleasant especially for people with health problems.
the situation is improving a lot.
this morning (Saturday) the sun is part yessss.

[Graeme1858]

Has anyone heard from Lowjiber or Ben Cartwright lately ?

No, John kind of just stopped posting. He was last on here in February 2022. On SGL it was November 2020. Don't know if he was active on CN?

[Thefatkitty]

Well, nothing but clouds here, probably cause I got that camera... Sorry Mike!

I did try it out this morning, I got my 61mm focused on an antenna about 1/2 kilometre away on the roof of an apartment building. I used SharpCap with my laptop. Took a bit, but I managed to play with the exposure setting, etc.

Wow, it took about 8 seconds for it to do 1000 frames! My DSLR takes 5 minutes for 100... Big difference, plus it's nice having a large screen for focus instead of the little one on the back of my Canon.

I stacked it in AS3 (I saved it as a SER file from SharpCap) and took the best 10%. Nothing exciting, just wanted to do the whole process

My other half will probably be home soon... Too bad, I was enjoying the peace and quiet!

Hope you're faring better,

[Graeme1858]

Glad it's going well Mark. Looking forward to your next post!

Graeme

[Tillibobs]

A beautiful sky here, deep blue and hardly a breeze. That was up to an hour ago ! now its dark clouds and forked lightening. Iwont be playing out today.

[Lady Fraktor]

We have been dealing with the same for 10 days with only a few small reprieves.
Hopefully conditions get better soon.

[Gordon]

I saw this on GONG and had to give it a try!

[messier 111]

I saw this on GONG and had to give it a try!

6-13-2023 Prom.jpg

you didn't miss your shot, thx.

[Tillibobs]

You're getting too good at this Gordon !!!
Keith

[Gordon]

I learned from the "Masters".