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Old June 9th 12, 10:59 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
uncarollo
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Active region 11494 on the Sun taken with the AP 160 at f/30, a
Daystar Quantum PE 0.4A H-alpha filter and ST-10XME camera, combining
8 exposures each at 0.004 seconds, 1 binned.
Taken by Dave Jurasevich on Mount Wilson

http://tinyurl.com/7hvht36
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Old June 10th 12, 03:52 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Ben[_2_]
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Default Sun in H-alpha

On Saturday, June 9, 2012 2:59:37 PM UTC-7, uncarollo wrote:
Active region 11494 on the Sun taken with the AP 160 at f/30, a
Daystar Quantum PE 0.4A H-alpha filter and ST-10XME camera, combining
8 exposures each at 0.004 seconds, 1 binned.
Taken by Dave Jurasevich on Mount Wilson

http://tinyurl.com/7hvht36


Excellent capture, uncarollo. Thanks.
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Old June 11th 12, 06:29 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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On 10/06/2012 3:59 AM, uncarollo wrote:
Active region 11494 on the Sun taken with the AP 160 at f/30, a
Daystar Quantum PE 0.4A H-alpha filter and ST-10XME camera, combining
8 exposures each at 0.004 seconds, 1 binned.
Taken by Dave Jurasevich on Mount Wilson

http://tinyurl.com/7hvht36


Cool stuff! During the recent Venus Transit, I gotta chance to see the
Sun through solar filters, and the amateur astronomers with me said that
that was nothing, you should see the Sun in H-Alpha, then you'll see all
of the bubbles & waves on the Sun's surface.

Yousuf Khan
 




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