July 20th, 2023 Solar report

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I'm currently in the middle of some of the very best seeing conditions I've ever experienced while solar imaging (11:50am PDT). Now when I say that, what I really mean is that my seeing is "Good".
I'm working on a timelapse right now of the huge prominence on the southwestern limb of the Sun. I should have it complete later tonight or tomorrow to share.
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the photos, or it's not happening lol .
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messier 111 wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2023 7:26 pm the photos, or it's not happening lol .
Haha! Coming later...
The full disk and a few of the close-ups later.
I have to work this evening so the Time lapse will probably not happen till tomorrow.
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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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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It was a very "quiet" Sun today. If you've ever heard that before and didn't understand what it meant, here's what an active Sun looks like from a couple days ago.
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And here's what the "quiet" Sun looked like today.
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If you want to follow the Sun almost real time, this is the best site to use.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
If you are watching live and see a spike on the graph, you can open the GOES-18 timelapse loop that loops the past 3 hours to see where the activity is happening.
It really is amazing times we live in to have free access to this kind of data.
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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I've never had a quality graph look this good in AutoStakkert.
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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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AstroBee wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2023 7:56 pm I've never had a quality graph look this good in AutoStakkert.

Neither have I, that's amazing! I would love to get 25% above the top bar with anything; I usually have to settle for 10%. Good for you on all that and thanks for the link :D
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