NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN DIRECTLY. Please click here for solar observing safely. A super image of the Sun taken on 24th March 2024 by member Honor Wheeler. Honor captured the white light image of the Sun using an ED80 Refractor fitted with a solar filter, EQ3-pro Synscan mount, 2x Barlow, Canon M6 II. Exp1/6400s and ISO400. Below […]
NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN DIRECTLY. Please click here for solar observing safely. A super image of the Sun taken by member Jim Burchell. The image is showing an extremely large Sunspot group AR3615 in the middle of the Sun. Jim took the single image using a Pentax KP camera attached to a 102 mm Altair refactor […]
NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN DIRECTLY. Please click here for solar observing safely. A splendid image of the Sun taken on the 25th February 2024 by member Jim Burchell. Jim captured the image using a Seestar S50 smart scope fitted with a solar filter and processed in Snapseed. The giant sunspot AR3590 that can be seen on […]
NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN DIRECTLY. Please click here for solar observing safely. Super image of the Sun taken by member Jim Burchell on the 1st March 2024. The image was taken using a Pentax KP body set at Iso 200 & 1/400 sec, attached to a 102mm F14 Altar Astro refractor fitted with a solar […]
NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN DIRECTLY. Please click here for solar observing safely. A superb single image of the Sun in white light showing sunspot groups 3489-3498 taken on the 23/11/2023 by member Jim Burchell. The image was taken with a Pentax KP body attached to 102mm Altair Astro refractor fitted with a solar filter […]
A nice set of images showing how the Sunspot AR3395 developed over 5 days as it moved across the Sun in August by member Simon Dawes.
NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN DIRECTLY. Please click here for solar observing safely. On the 26th September 2023 member Simon Dawes imaged the Sun. One of his images of the sunspots on the Sun that day showed an interesting effect called the ‘Wilson Effect’. The Wilson effect is the perceived depression of a sunspot’s umbra or centre in […]
NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN DIRECTLY. Please click here for solar observing safely. Sunday 6th August 2023 – What a glorious day to be out solar observing which is what Crayford Manor House Astronomical Society Dartford (CMHASD) where doing at Hall Place & Gardens in Bexley. What a busy day it was too! Several telescopes were set up […]
More stunning images of our active Sun taken by member Simon Dawes in the later half of July 2023. Details of how Simon acquired his images are on the photos. For more information about the Sun, its structure, atmosphere, sunspots, solar cycle and magnetosphere click on https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/sun/in-depth/ 12th July 2023 26th July 2023 […]
NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN DIRECTLY. Please see our Solar Observing safety page at crayfordmanorastro.com/solar-safety/ Lots of stunning images taken by member and trustee Simon Dawes of our Sun on 4 days during the month of June. Details of how Simon acquired the images are on the photos. 9th June 2023 16th June 2023 19th […]