The Sun in 2011
The Sun started "waking up" in 2011. I did not gaze nor image with it much until much later in the year (December), in fact. I'm glad I resumed! Unless otherwise stated, all images were shot with a Lunt LS50 filter and BF1200 blocking filter on a Borg 76ED telescope. The telescope was mounted on a Takahashi EM200 Temma2 mount. Camera used was an Imaging Source DMK 21AU04.AS camera. A Celestron Ultima Barlow was used to zoom in on the few interesting surface features found. Images were captured in monochrome via IC Capture, then stacked using AVIStack and colorized in Photoshop. Some monochrome images are also included in this batch to show off the level of detail that can be pulled out by the pure monochrome data.
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December 10 - no Barlow |  |
December 10 - no Barlow. Monochrome version |
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December 10 - no Barlow |  |
December 10 - no Barlow |
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December 10 - no Barlow |  |
December 10 - no Barlow |
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December 10 - I call this "The Seahorse and the Coral" |  |
December 10 |
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December 10 |  |
December 24 - No Barlow. This was shot through the branches of an intervening tree, which caused the big dark bands. |