Sun in CaK / White Light
With Stellarvue SV80s 
+ Lunt CaK filter or Baader Wedge
Uploaded 12/22/21

Daily Report
For Wednesday, December 22, 2021
 
 Only
 
Images below are 800 wide and non clickable
 

            
 WHITE
            LIGHT:

            
Lets start
            with the full disk, an abundance of sunspots today! This is prime
            focus with the SV80s

            


            
 

            
This magnificent
            group now past the central meridian has flared a lot in halpha
            lately. This is a 5x powermate shot.

            


            
 

            
New and
            coming on to the Sun a 5x here we have a big group.

            


            
 

            
A few scattered
            small spots across the Sun at 5x

            


            
 

            
Now for
            some Calcium K shots. These are with the 2x televue big barlow,
            and Lunk B600 CAk filter. What an amazing group!

            


            
 

            
Even the
            lesser spots look good in Calcium light. 

            



Instruments:  SV80S with Zeiss Apochromat
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200
Camera:  DMK 51 - 1600 x 1200
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 1.5/5, Transparency 5/10
Outside Temperature: 45F
Processing: Autostakkert, Photoshop CS2

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