Much appreciated Pete and Stuart! Tonight might be the first clear moonless night for imaging in months. Fingers crossed. Chris

Purosol works great. Chris

You win! Great snap. Chris

If one of can guess the correct price, do we get a prize? I say $5950 Chris

Saturday had nice conditions to snap some pics of AR3014. Shot through the 130EDT. Full disc (negative colorized) http://www.abmedia.com/astro/current/sun-052122-colorized.html AR3014 close up (colori

That is a most excellent result. If you have clear skies most mornings have you thought about putting a time lapse animation together? One thing you can try as well is using a green filter. I am curre

Thanks Pete! Yes, afocal projection. Works well. Chris

Thanks Rolando, Stuart and Jim! I'm having fun with this daylight astroimaging. The nights have been cloudy so why not take advantage of the sunny days. Chris

Cool! This shot looks like something out a Alien or mission to Mars movie. Chris

The Sun currently has seven active regions that are visible from Earth. This includes the large sunspot group AR3014. Both monochrome and colorized versions are presented. Captured with the 130EDT. ht

LOL! That was such a great episode. I miss that show. Chris

6-8" Mak Newt would be welcome. For those that missed out on the 180 FastMax Chris

Not looking good for MA and New England. Typical. Chris

I'm not really a fan of NB images but this is very well done Stuart! Thumbs up! Chris

Either a long FL visual refractor or a new series of A-P planetary eyepieces? Chris

Excellent image Chris! We'll have to start calling you The Dustbuster. Chris

Thanks guys! I'm going to experiment with a green filter in the imaging train. The Baader Solar Continuum filters are out of stock until August so a regular #58 will have to do. The bandpass is not as

Yesterday was bright and sunny here in MA so I decided to capture the Sun along with AR3004 with the 130EDT. Not the best seeing but with temps in the mid 60's it was a pleasant morning in the observa

I too was hoping to make it to AIC this year but it was not to be. Maybe Roland will have the new 200GTO by the 2024 conference... ;) Chris

Good one Stuart! Very colorful rendition of the trio. Chris