Solar 2012-03-13





Hydrogen Alpha: Lunt 60mm Solartelescope + Lunt 50mm front filter for double stack.
Extra equipment: 0.5x focal reducer, 1.5x barlow
Camera: DMK31 USB Mono

Seeing was quite bad. It was like looking through boiling water. There were also some clouds.

All images were captured in double stack mode.

0.5x focal reducer - HDR from 4 exposures.


Alternative of the above.



1.5x barlow - Mosaic of 9 images.

Link 2000 x 2000 full resolution


1.5x barlow - Mosaic of 17 images. The extras are of the proms.

Link 2000 x 2000 full resolution




Time Lapse:

Sequence A: 600 frames were recorded every 30 seconds for 30½ minutes.


Link 147kb quicktime
Link 254kb inverted quicktime


Sequence B: 600 frames were recorded every 30 seconds for 18½ minutes. Too many clouds towards the end so i had to stop the recording session.


Link 1.5mb Quicktime
Link 1.5mb inverted Quicktime