Hydrogen Alpha Solar: Initially attempted white light solar but forest fire smoke killed that idea... Mounted the Lunt 60 solar scope with the QHY462C camera on the CEM26 mount and...

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Initially attempted white light solar but forest fire smoke killed that idea...

Mounted the Lunt 60 solar scope with the QHY462C camera on the CEM26 mount and fired it up. The Ha solar scope cut through the smoke quite nicely.

Shot video sessions of 1000 frames each, primarily of prominences.

The Sun was quite active today.

Enjoy!

bwa

A panorama of eight images; four tuned for the surface and four tuned for prominences. Photoshop merge.

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With 2.5x PowerMate
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With 2.5x PowerMate. A panorama of two images
With 2.5x PowerMate. A panorama of two images...

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Klickitatdave Loc: Seattle Washington

Incredible shots! Thank you for posting them.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

WOW.

alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ

Love the first. It really gives the best example of the different size of earth compared with the sun.

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

alberio wrote:

Love the first. It really gives the best example of the different size of earth compared with the sun.

Yup, we are a pretty small 3rd rock from the sun. One flick by any of those prominences and we're history (although if we're gone, so is 'history')!

bwa

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Beautiful Images Brian!

I recently got a glass filter for my new telescope for the upcoming Annular Eclipse event.
Haven't tried it yet, but I think it just makes white light images.
I'm curious about the video use of cameras.

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

SonnyE wrote:

Beautiful Images Brian!

I recently got a glass filter for my new telescope for the upcoming Annular Eclipse event.
Haven't tried it yet, but I think it just makes white light images.
I'm curious about the video use of cameras.

Video is essentially 'lucky shooting', i.e.: if you shoot enough images/video frames through the atmosphere, at least a few will catch a stable moment. Then you use something like AutoStakkert to pick the best frames for postprocessing. Video works wonders when shooting planetary, lunar and solar sessions; bright targets with very short exposures.

bwa

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

I going to have to start playing with that.

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

bwana wrote:

Initially attempted white light solar but forest fire smoke killed that idea...

Mounted the Lunt 60 solar scope with the QHY462C camera on the CEM26 mount and fired it up. The Ha solar scope cut through the smoke quite nicely.

Shot video sessions of 1000 frames each, primarily of prominences.

The Sun was quite active today.

Enjoy!

bwa

Great shots of the prominences. I hope the sun's not working up to another Carrington event.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Ballard wrote:

Great shots of the prominences. I hope the sun's not working up to another Carrington event.

Boy, I had to go look that up. Can you imagine if we had that today?
Back in 1859 I bet it stalled the steam powered computers. But today?

Poooph! My phone melted in my pocket. Ouch!
My computerized mount is dead. My Tesla is dead.

Catastrophe.

Slap humans with a dose of reality, if not wipe us out.

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

SonnyE wrote:

Boy, I had to go look that up. Can you imagine if we had that today?
Back in 1859 I bet it stalled the steam powered computers. But today?

Poooph! My phone melted in my pocket. Ouch!
My computerized mount is dead. My Tesla is dead.

Catastrophe.

Slap humans with a dose of reality, if not wipe us out.

Yep it would be a major issue that could blow out all the major transformers that deliver the electrical power on our aging grid and take a couple years to replace. (estimates are round 2 trillion dollars just for the repair).

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Ballard wrote:

Yep it would be a major issue that could blow out all the major transformers that deliver the electrical power on our aging grid and take a couple years to replace. (estimates are round 2 trillion dollars just for the repair).

And essentially drop us back to a preindustrial lifestyle for a few years. Imagine, if you can, the carnage!

bwa

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

bwana wrote:

And essentially drop us back to a preindustrial lifestyle for a few years. Imagine, if you can, the carnage!

bwa

Without our power grid for months or even a couple of years we couldn't fuel our infrastructure including farming, no refrigeration, no pumping gas and potentially we could lose up to 50% of our population just from starvation, resulting in a complete breakdown of society.

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Ballard wrote:

Without our power grid for months or even a couple of years we couldn't fuel our infrastructure including farming, no refrigeration, no pumping gas and potentially we could lose up to 50% of our population just from starvation, resulting in a complete breakdown of society.

I think your estimate of 50% is probably low...

bwa

stepping beyond Loc: usa eastcoast

I feel that I've been caught in the dark ages for about a month now with all these clouds, it was clear last night till 10 then the sea rolled in ruining my guiding. I enjoy your images bwana, awesome.