Solar Imaging Session - November 18, 2008

Seeing this morning is ok with some blue skies and less clouds than previous days. The Sun was again a bit quiet after AR 1008 Sunspot Group had exited the western limb. Lots of small prominences are visible in the solar limb but a nice grouping of prominences stands out from the rest so I took an image of it on fair seeing condition.

Solar Imaging Session - November 16, 2008

Hello:

I wake up late today so my observation window is limited to the point that I can only image the Sun in less than 15 minutes before it gets obstructed :( Nevertheless, I was able to capture a nice bar prominence but unfortunately, I missed imaging AR1008 sunspot group as by the time Im set to image it, it got obstructed already :( Below is the image of the prominence.


Before lunchtime, I got another chance to image the Sun but this time around, I opted to test the William Optics WCL-52 digicam lens I got in conjunction with my Canon 650IS to image afocally with TV-101 refractor. With that setup, it will give me an effective focal length of 1500m f/15. Unfortunately, clouds rolled up as fast as I setup again, but I got to image the whole disk before getting clouded up. Not that sharp as I got no time to finely focus though :(

Solar Imaging Session - November 14, 2008 (AR1008 Sunspot Group)

Hello:

With much expectation from yesterday solar session, I again waited this morning to image the AR1008 Group again. Seeing was surprising good for a short while when I was imaging it. But seeing didn' t stay long for me to continue shooting the Sun i good detail. Nevertheless, below are images that I took of AR1008 this morning. Some nice eruptive prominences can also be seen together in the same frame with the sunspot group.

Solar Imaging Session - November 13, 2008

Hello:

This morning, although a bit hazy, I try to image the Sun as I read from Spaceweather.com that AR 1008 Sunspot Group is visible and so I waited till the breaks of the clouds for me to image it. From Ha view, the main sunspot group of AR1008 is clearly visible. Aside from the group, I was also able to image a very faint large eruptive prominence that was faintly visible but really large. Another smaller eruptive prominence is also visible in the limb.

I was planning to image the AR1008 through white light but unfortunately, clouds cover the Sun and thus, I wasn't able to test my new William Optics DCL-52 digital lens with my Canon 650IS digicam on TV-101 refractor :( Hopefully tomorrow I would be able to do that before the group exits the western limb.

Solar Imaging Session - November 9, 2008

Hello:

This morning, the Sky was a bit hazy but I was still able to see the Sun through the haze so I proceed to setup. While scanning the limb of the Sun, I was able to see a nice eruptive prominence that was bright. As I image the prominence, I carefully check again on the rest of the solar limb and saw another fainter prominence that was almost invisible from visual view. Nevertheless, I image both of them amid bad seeing and thick haze and they can be viewed below:

Solar Imaging Session - November 4, 2008

Hello:

The sky this morning was again hazy but I still proceeded in imaging the Sun. From my computer monitor, there were several prominences again but image was really poor and soft. Nevertheless, I still image them as viewed below:

Solar Imaging Session - November 2, 2008

Hello:

After coming home from a tiring stargazing session at Caliraya, I saw the sky was a bit clear so I setup my PST-Ha to check out the Sun. Although there is some haze hovering on the Sun, I was able to see around 3 prominences at the limb of the Sun. SO before I got covered up by the darn clouds, I was able to image it. Seeing though was a bit poor :(