Solar Imaging Session - January 31, 2021

 The sky this afternoon is partly cloudy and I had to wait more than 1 hour for some clearing for me to image the Sun in Ha wavelength since there are no more sunspot groups visible on the Sun's disk. Seeing condition is fair. There are several large prominences visible in the NE, SE and SW limb.  The best of the 3 large prominence is the one in the SW limb. Remnant of AR2800 Sunspot Group an still be seen in Ha but none in white light wavelength.  The other 2 large prominences are a bit faint to see and image.

Lunar Imaging Session - January 28, 2021 Full Wolf Moon

The sky this evening is cloudy and I have to wait more than 45 minutes before I could get a clear shot of the Full Wolf Moon, the first full Moon of 2021 using Canon EOS M6 Mirrorless camera on Borg 76ED refractor mounted on Vixen Porta 2 mount. Exposure of 1/1000sec at ISO 100.

Solar Imaging Session - January 24, 2021

 The sky this afternoon is very cloudy but there was a small window for me to do a quick white light closeup image of the decayed AR2798 and growing AR2797 Sunspot Groups before getting clouded out again as well as rain !

Solar Imaging Session - January 22, 2021

The sky this late afternoon is partly clear and I was able to image the Sun with both AR2797 and 2798 Sunspot Groups through Ha and white light wavelength. AR2797 and 2798 Sunspot Groups are very small and dull in white light but comes alive in Ha wavelength. Smaller AR2798 Sunspot Group shows bright flaring activity while AR2797 Sunspot Group ejects a long dark filament!  I was also able to image white light full disk to show how small the 2 groups are.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lunar Imaging Session - January 1, 2021

The sky this evening is partly cloudy but I was abkle to get a few shots of the Waning Gibbous Moon through my Borg 76ED refractor using Canon EOS M6 Mirrorless Camera as well as ZWO ASI120MM Mini mounted on Vixen Porta 2 mount for my 1st astro image for the year 2021!