Category : The Sun

Partial Solar Eclipse 10th June 2021

Posted on: June 11, 2021 /
Categories: The Sun

After days of hot and sunny and cloudless skies of course on the day of the solar eclipse it was nearly 100% cloud cover. I nearly didn’t even both opening the observatory roof. But I still did and it wasn’t until about 11.30am that the clouds started to clear. The actual partial solar eclipse was

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Preparing for the June Partial Solar Eclipse 2021

Posted on: June 7, 2021 /
Categories: The Sun

Well it’s been a while, but on Sunday I cracked open the observatory shed roof and started to prepare for the partial solar eclipse on 10th June 2021. I have decided to image the solar eclipse in white light using a solar filter that I previously made. I shall be using my trusty ASI 120MM-S

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Mercury Transit 2019 Report

Posted on: November 12, 2019 /
Categories: The Sun

The Mercury transit 2019 for the UK was on Monday 11th November with it hitting the middle of the Sun at about 3pm UK time. Start time was around 12.30. Not the best time to have a transit in the winter when the Sun is so low down all day and it sets really early

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Transit of Mercury 2016

Posted on: May 9, 2016 /
Categories: The Sun

Today was the transit of Mercury 2016. I had two set-ups today – my Coronado Ha PST telescope with my ASI120-MMS camera in it and my Meade 127mm refractor with a white light filter on it, on this scope I tried my Atik 460 and Canon DSLR but none of these images came out that

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The Sun in Hydrogren Alpha with Coronado PST

Posted on: July 8, 2013 /
Categories: The Sun

This image of the Solar disc was taken on Saturday 6th July 2013. It was taken using a standard Coronado PST and an Imaging Source DMK21 AU618 Mono camera. I did use a Short ‘C’ mount adaptor in order to allow the PST to gain focus, without having to use a Barlow lens. As the

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H-Alpha Image with DMK21-AU618

Posted on: February 26, 2012 /
Categories: The Sun

Received my new Imaging Source DMK21-AU618 camera the other day, today was my first chance to use it. There was a lot of cloud about today and I did not start imaging until 3pm which was a bit late in the day, but I am happy with the images I took. One thing I did

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Solar Image with Coronado PST and Canon SLR

Posted on: September 1, 2011 /
Categories: The Sun

I decided to have a look at the Sun today whilst it was out for a change and not cloudy. The weather this summer in 2011 in the UK has been terrible cloudy by day and cloudy by night. I began by putting my standard Coronado PST on my Manfrotto tripod and put in my

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Coronado PST Images

Posted on: July 16, 2011 /
Categories: The Sun

Well I went out and purchased a Coronado PST from ScopesNSkies the other week and was itching to try it out, but it seems since I have bought it, it’s now cloudy every day – typical! I did get to put it on my NEQ6 mount and do some imaging one Sunday morning though. I

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April 2011 Sunspots

Posted on: April 26, 2011 /
Categories: The Sun

As we have been having some nice summery weather in April, it gives us a great chance to get out in the garden and do some solar imaging. I have recently had a major equipment change, and sold my LX200 (sad to see you go) and I now have an NEQ6 Pro mount instead, with

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Partial Solar Eclipse Image on Stargazing Live

Posted on: January 11, 2011 /
Categories: The Sun

As my previous post mentioned I was amazed to see my partial solar eclipse included at the end of the BBC Look East TV News programme. Mainly because there were so many good images taken by those people who did not get clouded out. I also sent my image in to the BBC Stargazing Live

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