Solar Imaging Session - May 28, 2025

The sky this afternoon is hazy and seeing condition is fair. There are 2 moderate sized sunspots in AR4100 and AR4099 Regions that are worth observing as they have nice umbral and penumbral structures both in white light and Ha wavelength.

Deep Sky & Lunar Imaging Session - May 18, 2025

The sky after midnight is partly clear with some slight haze but I still proceeded to setup and image IC4628 Prawn Nebula in the constellation of Scorpius using my trusty Borg 76ED Refractor with 0.8x Reducer / Flattener and SVBony SV220 Duo Band Filter as well as M4 Globular Star Cluster also in Scorpius using Dwarf 3 Smart Scope at Astro Mode with Astro Filter and EQ Mode. I was only able to get around 1 hour worth of data before clouds started to interfere my session. I also manage to get a quickie image of the Waning Gibbous Moon before I packed up my gears.

Solar Imaging Session - May 12, 2025

The sky this afternoon is slightly hazy and seeing condition is good. With giant AR4079 already exits the western limb, only AR4082 Region is the bigger group on the Sun's disk. There is also a nice large group of Eruptive prominence visible in the NE limb.

Lunar Imaging Session - May 9, 2025

The sky this evening is clear and I images the 12 day old Waxing Gibbous Moon using Dwarf 3 Smart Scope at Astro Mode with VIS Filter at AZ Mode with a total stacked 20 images at 1/1000 sec exposure at Gain 0.

Solar Imaging Session - May 8, 2025

The sky this morning is cloudy and I had a hard time getting solar images due to fast passing thick clouds. I was only to get a few snap shots of AR4079 Region in both white light and Ha wavelength before getting clouded out totally and even rain after I packed up asap!

Solar Imaging Session - May 7, 2025

The sky this morning is cloudy and I almost gave up around lunchtime but I continue to wait patiently for a chance to image and luckily, I was given maybe 30 minutes window for me to shoot the Sun closeup before I got clouded out again and even rain hard after I packed up. No full disk though but better than nothing at all.

Solar Imaging Session - May 6, 2025

The sky this morning is clear and seeing condition is again excellent. AR4079 Region continues to grow in size and still a large naked eye sunspot with solar filter. AR4082 and AR4081 Regions are also starting to grow in size but not comparable to the huge AR4079 in size. There is also a huge Hedgerow prominence visible in the NE limb which I wasn't able to image yeaterday due to cloudy sky.