Solar Imaging Session - November 27, 2023

The sky this afternoon is partly clear and I was only able to AR3502, 3491, 3492, 3490 and 3500 region in white light under poor seeing condition before I got totally clouded out :(

Solar Imaging Session - November 26, 2023

The sky was practically all cloudy the whole day and even rain hard late in the afternoon. But after the rainfall, the sky started to get clear and I use this opportunity to image the Sun despite the fact it is already low in the western horizon which means I will have a high probability of getting a bad seeing condition. Lots of sunspot groups scattered on the solar disk with the group under AR3502,3491, 3492 and 3490 the most prominent region on the disk and followed also by another groups under AR3501, 3500, 3494 and 3493 region. There is also a bright flare in the AR3490 while I was imaging . Also beautiful is the faint large SW bar prominence which stand tall despite being a little dim so I had to overexpose it to capture the faint tendrils.

Solar Imaging Session - November 19, 2023

The sky this morning is partly cloudy but seeing condition is good. I only image AR3489 region as well as the huge SE Hedgerow Prominence before I got clouded out again before I could image in CaK wavelength.

Solar Imaging Session - November 17, 2023

The sky this afternoon is partly cloudy and seeing condition is poor. Lots of limb wobbling. AR3486 region is exiting the SW limb. A large dark filament is also visible on the solar disk.

November 8, 2023 Jupiter and Saturn Imaging Session

The sky this evening is clear so my son KC and I setup at our parking area to try to image the 2 gas planets namely Jupiter and Saturn. We initially setup at the parking area so we can image the planet Jupiter first as it is positioned in the eastern horizon early evening. We setup the Meade 8" f/10 SCT mounted on a Vixen GPDX mount with ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera. Seeing condition is fair while imaging Jupiter and we could also see the Great Red Spot also nearing Central Meridian. Afterwards, we had to packed up and went up the roofdeck this time around to image ringed planet Saturn which is on the western horizon side. But seeing condition during this time is not that good already but nevertheless, we still proceeded to image Saturn. We also got to view the 2 planets after imaging before we packed up and called it a night. For me, this is the 1st time again for me to image them since 2018 while this is the 1st time for KC to try planetary imaging.

Solar Imaging Session - November 5, 2023

The sky this afternoon is partly cloudy but seeing condition is very good. I was only able to image AR3477 in whitelight wavelength before sudden hard downpour had me scampering to move my equipment out of rain's way despite myself all soak up wet! Nevertheless, it's still a happy session for me!

Solar Imaging Session - November 2, 2023

The sky this afternoon is hazy and seeing condition is fair. AR3474 Sunspot Group is nearing the SW limb while a new large AR3477 Sunspot Group is entering the NE limb. There are also several small sunspot groups scattered on the Sun's disk as well. A nice large hedgerow prominence can also be viewed in the SW limb.