March 29th 2006

Michael Johnston

Total Eclipse Turkey, Diamond Ring

23rd Jan 2005

Michael Johnston

Total Eclipse Turkey, March 29th 2006, showing totality

23rd Jan 2005

David Lillis

The Sun through the ETX70 on the 23rd of Jan 2005,
It with the canon 300D at prime focus. I stacked 16 images in registax and processed in photoshop

15rd Jan 2005

Michael Scully

The Active region 10720 that sparked off aurorea on the 21st of January. Taken through a Skylux 70mm refractor with a Thousand Oaks filter. Taken with a Philips ToUcam Pro and AVI video file processed in Registax 3.

18th May 2004

David Lillis

Taken the same time as the white light image just below, you can see how the sun spots correspond to features on the h alpha Sun. It was made for 2 separate pictures, each was the result of stacking 300 frames. I added a yellow hue to it, as Im not a fan of the Red given by this scope.

The graininess is real (granulation), you actually see more detail with the eye. Note all the solar flares/prominences on the edge and how they form a line with the sunspots.

Equip = 70mm Coronado solar max + Philips toucam pro webcam

18th May 2004

David Lillis

This white light, low resolution picture of the Sun is the result of stacking 24 individual frames.Taken at 19.34 through a Thousand oaks type 2+ full aperture filter on a 12 SCT with a canon EOS 300D + registax

17th March 2004

David Lillis

Coronado 70mm Ha scope + toucam pro (no eyepiece) at prime focus.. Stacked 100 pics from a video of 250. The setup was not too steady, hence the large number of dropped frames.

12th February 2004

David Lillis

This picture taken at 16:30 is stacked from 200 frames, note the flare on the upper left hand side and the prominences going across the disk !!! The visual image was much more impressive then what the camera could capture.
Coronado 70mm H-alpha scope piggybacked on LX200 + Toucam Pro + Laptop PC + astrosnap + registax.

23rd Nov 2003

Michael O'Connell

Taken at 14:00 with a Nikon Coolpix 775 camera, Baader astrosolar filter, yellow filter, 26mm eyepiece + 4.5" f8 Helios reflector telescope

23rd Nov 2003

Michael O'Connell

As above showing the complete disc.

31st October 2003

Con Buckley

As image taken on 29th below, Note the rotation of the sunspots over the two days.

29th October 2003

Con Buckley

The telescope was a Meade ETX90 with Thousand Oaks solar filter. The images were recorder on ASA 200, 35mm film at prime focus.

27th October 2003

Con Buckley/ Dave Lillis

Active region AR488. This was located just above AR 484 and its associated coronal mass ejections that gave rise to the auroras of late October and early November 2003. See the Aurora Gallery.

27th October 2003

Con Buckley/ Dave Lillis

Active region AR486. This picture and the next one were taken with a Meade ETX90 using a type 2 thousand oaks solar filter and a Philips Toucam Pro webcam at prime focus. The images are derived from the best frames of 3 30 second avi files recorded. These were taken between midday and 3 pm.

26th October 2003

Michael O'Connell

Full disc at the same time as the above close up.

26th October 2003

Michael O'Connell

Active region 484 is now rotated to the left of the image and the new active region has rotated into view. Taken on the 26th of October by using a Helios 4.5" reflector with Baader astrosolar film and Nikon Coolpix digital camera pointed into a 20mm lens.

23rd October 2003

Dave Gradwell

Image of AR484. It's the best 44 frames out 151 with the To U Cam Pro and a Celestron Firstscope 80 refractor. False colour was applied using MaximDL. Note you can also see the next AR appearing around the edge of the disk on the right.

30th March 2003

Michael O'Connell

This was taken through a H-Alpha telescope which was on display at COSMOS '03with the my Nikon Coolpix 775.