Sun in HAlpha
With Lunt LS100THa 
Uploaded 5/21/22

Daily Report
For Saturday May 21, 2022
 
 A
            huge naked eye sunspot has formed near the center of the Sun!
            I was able to easily see it by holding my Baader ND5 filter for
            my Questar over my eyes and looking at the sun yesterday near
            late afternoon. Lets take a look at this beast, and the rest
            of the active Sun...
 
Images below are 1290 wide and non clickable
 

            
 Halpha:

            
Two views
            of the full disk, see which one you like better! Here we put
            the disk exposed for the bright chromosphere in the center, and
            in the background behind the sun, the dimmer proms on the limb.

            


            
However, you
            may like this better, like a total solar eclipse I blocked out
            the brilliant overexposed disk to more easily see the proms on
            the limb. Which do you like better?

            


            
At 6x magnification
            with the Klee barlow compared to the above images, we zoom in
            on the big spot and other active regions.

            


            
 

            


            
 

            


            
 

            



Instruments:  Lunt LS100THa Halpha
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200
Camera:  DMK 51
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 1.5/5, Transparency 9/10
Outside Temperature: 75F
Processing: Registax 6, Photoshop CS2

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