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Clear Skies: January 2014
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Saturday, 11 January 2014. Winter Sun - 11th Jan. AR1944 is one the largest sunspots of this solar cycle, and was responsible for a large CME a few days ago that brought impressive aurora displays in the arctic. It was hoped that the storm would be powerful enough to produce more southerly displays of the northern lights, but sadly this wasn't to be. Never the less, the sunspot is pretty impressive on it's own. Images stacked in Registax 6 and processed in Photoshop CS2. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Clear Skies: What a whopper!
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Saturday, 25 October 2014. AR2192 is the largest sunspot of the current solar cycle, and is the largest seen since 2001. Spanning around 124,000 miles across, it could easily swallow the planet Jupiter. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Click on the images to make them BIGGER! View my Wildlife Blog :-. Eagle's Eye on the Sky. 10" Newtonian (Hinds optics). Superscopes Titan EQ mount. 6" mirror set waiting for a new tube. 8 x 42 bins. Nikon D300 and D70s DSLR's. Growing collection of lenses.
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Clear Skies: California Dreamin'
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Sunday, 13 October 2013. Well, this summer, I finally had the opportunity to visit some of these places that I'd known since childhood as mere images in books, and I wasn't disappointed. Mount Wilson's 150 foot Solar Tower telescope. 150 foot Solar Tower telescope. Dome of the 60" telescope, largest in the world when it was built in 1908. Dome of the 100" Hooker telescope. 100" Hooker telescope, the largest in the world until 1948, famously used by Edwin Hubble. Viewing gallery for the 100". 8 x 42 bins.
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Clear Skies: Twilight Parade
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Friday, 30 March 2012. I love the beauty of the crescent Moon with the faint Earthshine glowing against a slowly darkening twillight sky. When moving against a backdrop of planets, the view can be magical. And so it was on the night of Monday 26th. The three brightest objects in the sky (apart from the Sun that is! Venus at the top, with fainter and more distant Jupiter hovering above the branches of the bush. Wonderful. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Click on the images to make them BIGGER!
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Clear Skies: Winter Sun - 11th Jan
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Saturday, 11 January 2014. Winter Sun - 11th Jan. AR1944 is one the largest sunspots of this solar cycle, and was responsible for a large CME a few days ago that brought impressive aurora displays in the arctic. It was hoped that the storm would be powerful enough to produce more southerly displays of the northern lights, but sadly this wasn't to be. Never the less, the sunspot is pretty impressive on it's own. Images stacked in Registax 6 and processed in Photoshop CS2. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Clear Skies: Back to the Sun
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Sunday, 11 March 2012. Back to the Sun. Sunspot AR1429 has been responsible for recent coronal mass ejections (CME's) which have been battering Earth today, with another geomagnetic storm due to reach Earth tomorrow. Watchers in northern regions have been enjoying some marvellous aurorae, but sadly few have been visible from Bedfordshire. Hopefully chances of seeing the lights from Britain will increase as activity continues to increase towards solar maximum next year. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Clear Skies: Activity on the increase
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Wednesday, 18 July 2012. Activity on the increase. Sun-spot activity continues to increase towards solar maximum next year. In a rare gap in the torrential rain and total cloud cover that seems to be the British Summer this year, I couldn't miss the opportunity to try and get a few images last Sunday. Fortunately, active region 1520 was still putting on a show, following the CME that smashed into earth's magnetic field on the 14th. 9 October 2012 at 10:38. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 8 x 42 bins.
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Clear Skies: Geminids
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Sunday, 14 December 2014. I've never tried to image meteors before, but this was supposed to be a reasonably good shower so I braved the sub-zero temperatures for an hour or so and tried my luck. Of the few hundred images taken, I was chuffed that a handful had the tell tale streaks of meteors. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Click on the images to make them BIGGER! View my Wildlife Blog :-. Eagle's Eye on the Sky. 10" Newtonian (Hinds optics). Superscopes Titan EQ mount. 8 x 42 bins.
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Clear Skies: October 2013
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Sunday, 13 October 2013. Well, this summer, I finally had the opportunity to visit some of these places that I'd known since childhood as mere images in books, and I wasn't disappointed. Mount Wilson's 150 foot Solar Tower telescope. 150 foot Solar Tower telescope. Dome of the 60" telescope, largest in the world when it was built in 1908. Dome of the 100" Hooker telescope. 100" Hooker telescope, the largest in the world until 1948, famously used by Edwin Hubble. Viewing gallery for the 100". 8 x 42 bins.
