Solar Ha viewing today (Mar. 28, 2024)

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Solar Ha viewing today (Mar. 28, 2024)

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I have most of my gear set up in my living room as I sort through and test everything for the eclipse trip next week. But I stepped outside this morning to beautiful clear skies and couldn't resist opening the roof on my RoR and mounting up the Lunt 80mm scope for a peek at the Sun. No imaging today, just visual, and it was quite a treat. This was the first time the Lunt has been in the RoR.
With the Lunt 80mm double-stack if you have both of the tuners unscrewed or de-tuned, the surface of the sun almost resembles looking through a white-light filter except for the bright redness in color. At first glance AR3615 really popped out and was incredible to view. Even un-tuned, there was a large loop prominence on the eastern limb just getting ready to rotate into view. As I tuned the first etalon, more surface details began to appear and a few more edge prominences began to come into view. Once the second etalon was tuned the surface was teaming with filaments and one huge fila-prom along the eastern limb.
It was really nice have the RoR to use for viewing the sun today because the local winds were whipping up around 15-20mph and would have made visual or imaging impossible from my normal location on my balcony. The walls of the RoR were just high enough to keep the image steady.
A couple of pics of the rig and myself.
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Scopes: Celestron EdgeHD14", Explore Scientific ED152CF & ED127 APO's, StellarVue SV70T, Classic Orange-Tube C-8, Lunt 80mm Ha double-stack solar scope.
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Filters: 36mm Chroma LRGB & 3nm Ha, OIII, SII, L-Pro, L-eXtreme
Eyepieces: 27mm TeleVue Panoptic, 4mm TeleVue Radian, Explore Scientific 82° 30mm, 6.7mm , Baader 13mm Hyperion, Explore Scientific 70° 10mm, 15mm, 20mm, Meade 8.8mm UWA
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Re: Solar Ha viewing today (Mar. 28, 2024)

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Awesome you got to do some Ha, did a bit of visual myself this am and got my first recorded jet transit it Ha,

After last weeks first ever jet transit at all in Ca K I was shocked to see another buzz through this morning.

That obsy sure is nice Greg, you must be thrilled with every session you get the chance...
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Re: Solar Ha viewing today (Mar. 28, 2024)

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very nice setup , thx .
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Thanks guys. Yes, I am thrilled to have the obsy up and running, although a bit bare now since all the other scopes are headed cross country next week.
Congrats on the jet transit. Those are always so cool to capture. I've seen many, many more than I've actually captured. I never seem to have the record button pressed when they happen!
Greg M.~ "Ad Astra per Aspera"
Scopes: Celestron EdgeHD14", Explore Scientific ED152CF & ED127 APO's, StellarVue SV70T, Classic Orange-Tube C-8, Lunt 80mm Ha double-stack solar scope.
Mounts: Astro-Physics Mach One, iOptron CEM70EC Mount, iOptron ZEQ25 Mount.
Cameras: ZWO ASI2600mm Pro, ZWO 2600MC Pro, ZWO ASI1600mm
Filters: 36mm Chroma LRGB & 3nm Ha, OIII, SII, L-Pro, L-eXtreme
Eyepieces: 27mm TeleVue Panoptic, 4mm TeleVue Radian, Explore Scientific 82° 30mm, 6.7mm , Baader 13mm Hyperion, Explore Scientific 70° 10mm, 15mm, 20mm, Meade 8.8mm UWA
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Re: Solar Ha viewing today (Mar. 28, 2024)

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You need to add a beard to the bee in your profile picture.

Very nice setup, btw.
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I've gotten stung a lot less in the face since growing the beard. Yet another plus for keeping it.
Greg M.~ "Ad Astra per Aspera"
Scopes: Celestron EdgeHD14", Explore Scientific ED152CF & ED127 APO's, StellarVue SV70T, Classic Orange-Tube C-8, Lunt 80mm Ha double-stack solar scope.
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Cameras: ZWO ASI2600mm Pro, ZWO 2600MC Pro, ZWO ASI1600mm
Filters: 36mm Chroma LRGB & 3nm Ha, OIII, SII, L-Pro, L-eXtreme
Eyepieces: 27mm TeleVue Panoptic, 4mm TeleVue Radian, Explore Scientific 82° 30mm, 6.7mm , Baader 13mm Hyperion, Explore Scientific 70° 10mm, 15mm, 20mm, Meade 8.8mm UWA
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Re: Solar Ha viewing today (Mar. 28, 2024)

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Very nice setup Greg! Your scope and mount are a great combo, I'm somewhat envious ;) And the RoR helping with the wind is a big plus, I could use something like that!

I do like the beard and the reason for keeping it; I've thought about one, but it would be a sea of white :lol: I have to say, you look as mellow as me!

BTW, thanks again for the offer of the camera loan. Since the next time I went to use mine it's been no problem. Just that one day, and I still can't figure it out. Gremlins...!!

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Re: Solar Ha viewing today (Mar. 28, 2024)

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Thanks Mark. Mellow? Nope, I'm a ball of ADHD with a slight case of OCD mixed in there.
Glad the camera is running normal for you again.
Greg M.~ "Ad Astra per Aspera"
Scopes: Celestron EdgeHD14", Explore Scientific ED152CF & ED127 APO's, StellarVue SV70T, Classic Orange-Tube C-8, Lunt 80mm Ha double-stack solar scope.
Mounts: Astro-Physics Mach One, iOptron CEM70EC Mount, iOptron ZEQ25 Mount.
Cameras: ZWO ASI2600mm Pro, ZWO 2600MC Pro, ZWO ASI1600mm
Filters: 36mm Chroma LRGB & 3nm Ha, OIII, SII, L-Pro, L-eXtreme
Eyepieces: 27mm TeleVue Panoptic, 4mm TeleVue Radian, Explore Scientific 82° 30mm, 6.7mm , Baader 13mm Hyperion, Explore Scientific 70° 10mm, 15mm, 20mm, Meade 8.8mm UWA
Software: N.I.N.A., SharpCapPro, PixInsight, PhotoShop CC, Phd2, Stellarium
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