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The Sun by Jim Burchell on the 4th October 2024

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A super image of our Sun taken by member Jim Burchell on the morning of the 4th October 2024.  As you can see the Sun was very active with many sunspots including sunspot AR3842. The 2nd photo has the sunspots labelled.

Jim wrote ''The images show Sunspot AR3842 which released two X-class solar flares (X7.1 and X9.1) and a series of M-class flares.'' 

This means Sunspot AR3842 has produced the strongest solar flare of Solar Cycle 25 so far. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the X9.1-category blast.

Jim acquired his image using a Pentax KP body attached to a 102 mm F11 refactor; 1/320 sec; iso 100 and a Baader Astrosolar Safety film was used.

The Sun & Moon – 25th August 2024

 11th September 2024 11th September 2024
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Jim Burchell, Simon Dawes & Dr Mike Rushton imaged the Sun in white light on the 25th August 2024 and below are their splendid results.  As you can see the Sun was very active.

Mike used his Dwarf II smart scope to acquire his image below.

 

Jim used a Pentax KP body attached to 102mm Altair Astro F11 refractor fitted with a Solar filter.  The mage of the Sun is a single shot and then processed in Snapseed. 

Below is an image of the Sun taken from Spaceweather.com on the same day with the sunspots numbered.

 

Simon's images are of the Sunspots and as you will see some of the sunspots are rather stunning.  Details of how Simon acquired his images are on the photos.

 

Later that day Jim captured this super image of a Waning Gibbous Moon.  The moon was 20.65 days old and 62.92% illuminated.  Details of how Jim acquired his image are on the photo. This is a single shot image and then processed in Snapseed.

Our Sun by Jim Burchell – 23rd August 2024

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A fantastic white light image of the Sun taken by member Jim Burchell on the 23rd August 2024 from Dartford.  As you can see the Sun was very active with lots of huge sunspots.  Jim took the single shot image using a white light Baader planetarium Astro Solar Filter and a Pentax KP body attached to 102mm F11 Altair Astro refractor at 1/320 sec and iso 100.  Then processed in Snapseed.

 

Below is a spaceweather.com photo of the Sun with the sunspots given their number taken on the same day.

Congratulations to Simon Dawes

 8th September 2024 8th September 2024
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The Society would like to congratulate Simon Dawes for having his sunspot image (see below) published in the British Astronomical Association journal - August 2024 edition.  Well done Simon; it is a superb image.  Details of how Simon acquired his image is on the photo.

A mosaic of the groups AR3638, AR3643, and AR3645–3647, imaged in white light on 2024 April 18 at
07:31 UT, in Bexleyheath.

The Sun – 12th August 2024 by Dr Mike Rushton

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A lovely white light image of the Sun taken on the 12th August 2024 by member & trustee Dr Mike Rushton; using his Dwarf II smart scope. The image is stacked and is made up of 25 x 1/200 sec exposures at gain 0.

The large sunspot top left is AR3784 and the large sunspot to the bottom right is AR3780.

Making a Solar Filter for my Skywatcher 190MN

 5th July 2022 5th July 2022
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My Skywatcher 190MN telescope has a very wide field of view I can easily fit the full Moon or Sun on the chip, so I thought I'd get myself some Baader solar Safety Film and make myself a solar filter - the video below shows how i made it and shows some early results. Check-out our solar section for more images.

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Solar Images By Leigh Slomer

 8th August 2021 8th August 2021
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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="651"]The Sun in H-Alpha 1st attempt with ZWO ASI174MM Taken on the 8th of June with a Daystar Solar Scout SS60-DS and a ZWO ASI174MM camera. My 1st proper attempt at imaging the sun in H-Alpha.

[/caption][caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="800"]20210720_111540 Taken on the 16th of July with a Daystar Solar Scout SS60-DS and a ZWO ASI174MM camera.[/caption]

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Sun spots! 2020-12-27

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Images by Honor Wheeler

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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="800"]20201227_1148UT_HW Image by Honor Wheeler Skywatcher ED80 refractor, Canon M6 Mark2 camera. EQ3 synscan mount. For the full disc I used a x2 Barlow and the close up x5 Barlow. Processed using PIPP, AS!3 & PShop elements6. I could have done better but didn't have clear skies really for long enough and at the moment the sun is so darn low! Anyway happy to get these.

[/caption][caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"]20201227_1127UT_HW Image by Honor Wheeler Skywatcher ED80 refractor, Canon M6 Mark2 camera. EQ3 synscan mount. For the full disc I used a x2 Barlow and the close up x5 Barlow. Processed using PIPP, AS!3 & PShop elements6. I could have done better but didn't have clear skies really for long enough and at the moment the sun is so darn low! Anyway happy to get these.[/caption]

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ISS transit of the Sun

 30th December 2020 30th December 2020
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Honor recently took this video of a transit of the Sun by the ISS, something she has been attempting for 10 years.

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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="782"]20200420_1309UT_HcW Image by Honor Wheeler This was taken using: Skywatcher ED80 refractor Canon 700D set in movie mode @50fps 2x Barlow EQ3 mount Date 2020.04.20 13:09UTC Transit time was 0.9 sec 16 frames extracted from the original video using PIPP and then the layers merged in Photoshop elements 6. Additional processing also done in Photoshop E6.[/caption]

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