Sunspot astrophotos

Hi all,

Last week before So. Cal was overcome by fire and smoke I managed to get
a few shots of the large sunspots that were visible at the time.

These were shot with my Meade ETX-105 an Orion 20mm Expanse eyepiece and
my Casio Qv3500 ex digicam.

The solar filter was hommade using Baader solar film.

Here are two of the shots:



I also noticed in 3 of my closeup images that there was apparently an
object in transit across the face of the sun. I created an animated GIF
of these three. If anyone can tell me what the object might be I'd
appreciate it.

The transit shot is he



Take a look and tell me what you think?

Thanks

Craig

"EXT_Astro_Boy" wrote in message . net...
Hi all,

Last week before So. Cal was overcome by fire and smoke I managed to get
a few shots of the large sunspots that were visible at the time.

These were shot with my Meade ETX-105 an Orion 20mm Expanse eyepiece and
my Casio Qv3500 ex digicam.

The solar filter was hommade using Baader solar film.

Here are two of the shots:



I also noticed in 3 of my closeup images that there was apparently an
object in transit across the face of the sun. I created an animated GIF
of these three. If anyone can tell me what the object might be I'd
appreciate it.

The transit shot is he



Take a look and tell me what you think?

How long was it between each exposure? Could be a lot of things.

Rick

"EXT_Astro_Boy" wrote in message . net...
Hi all,

Last week before So. Cal was overcome by fire and smoke I managed to get
a few shots of the large sunspots that were visible at the time.

These were shot with my Meade ETX-105 an Orion 20mm Expanse eyepiece and
my Casio Qv3500 ex digicam.

The solar filter was hommade using Baader solar film.

Here are two of the shots:



I also noticed in 3 of my closeup images that there was apparently an
object in transit across the face of the sun. I created an animated GIF
of these three. If anyone can tell me what the object might be I'd
appreciate it.

The transit shot is he



Take a look and tell me what you think?

How long was it between each exposure? Could be a lot of things.

Rick

Rick,

There was no time between the exposures. I had the camera in continous
mode and the exposure for each image was 10000/1748251 seconds according
to the EXIF data on the original images. Once the 3 images were taken
they were written to the CF card.

Craig

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"EXT_Astro_Boy" wrote in message . net...
Hi all,

Last week before So. Cal was overcome by fire and smoke I managed to get
a few shots of the large sunspots that were visible at the time.

These were shot with my Meade ETX-105 an Orion 20mm Expanse eyepiece and
my Casio Qv3500 ex digicam.

The solar filter was hommade using Baader solar film.

Here are two of the shots:



I also noticed in 3 of my closeup images that there was apparently an
object in transit across the face of the sun. I created an animated GIF
of these three. If anyone can tell me what the object might be I'd
appreciate it.

The transit shot is he



Take a look and tell me what you think?

How long was it between each exposure? Could be a lot of things.

Rick

Rick,

There was no time between the exposures. I had the camera in continous
mode and the exposure for each image was 10000/1748251 seconds according
to the EXIF data on the original images. Once the 3 images were taken
they were written to the CF card.

Craig

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"EXT_Astro_Boy" wrote in message . net...
Hi all,

Last week before So. Cal was overcome by fire and smoke I managed to get
a few shots of the large sunspots that were visible at the time.

These were shot with my Meade ETX-105 an Orion 20mm Expanse eyepiece and
my Casio Qv3500 ex digicam.

The solar filter was hommade using Baader solar film.

Here are two of the shots:



I also noticed in 3 of my closeup images that there was apparently an
object in transit across the face of the sun. I created an animated GIF
of these three. If anyone can tell me what the object might be I'd
appreciate it.

The transit shot is he



Take a look and tell me what you think?

How long was it between each exposure? Could be a lot of things.

Rick

"EXT_Astro_Boy" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I also noticed in 3 of my closeup images that there was apparently an
object in transit across the face of the sun. I created an animated GIF
of these three. If anyone can tell me what the object might be I'd
appreciate it.

The transit shot is he



Take a look and tell me what you think?


Aeroplane? That would show up as a fast moving black dot through the filter
paper. I ran Starry Night across the whole of sun up for 30/10 and nothing
seemed to transit (although that's no guarantee that it didn't). My
co-ordinates are almost certainly different from yours though, so if you
post date, time, longitude and latitude of the shots, I'll look again on the
off chance that SN shows anything. Looked to be too large a spot and moving
too fast to be stellar, imo.

Cheers
--
K.

"EXT_Astro_Boy" wrote in message
. net...
Hi all,

I also noticed in 3 of my closeup images that there was apparently an
object in transit across the face of the sun. I created an animated GIF
of these three. If anyone can tell me what the object might be I'd
appreciate it.

The transit shot is he



Take a look and tell me what you think?


Aeroplane? That would show up as a fast moving black dot through the filter
paper. I ran Starry Night across the whole of sun up for 30/10 and nothing
seemed to transit (although that's no guarantee that it didn't). My
co-ordinates are almost certainly different from yours though, so if you
post date, time, longitude and latitude of the shots, I'll look again on the
off chance that SN shows anything. Looked to be too large a spot and moving
too fast to be stellar, imo.

Cheers
--
K.

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"EXT_Astro_Boy" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I also noticed in 3 of my closeup images that there was apparently an
object in transit across the face of the sun. I created an animated GIF
of these three. If anyone can tell me what the object might be I'd
appreciate it.

The transit shot is he



Take a look and tell me what you think?


Aeroplane? That would show up as a fast moving black dot through the filter
paper. I ran Starry Night across the whole of sun up for 30/10 and nothing
seemed to transit (although that's no guarantee that it didn't). My
co-ordinates are almost certainly different from yours though, so if you
post date, time, longitude and latitude of the shots, I'll look again on the
off chance that SN shows anything. Looked to be too large a spot and moving
too fast to be stellar, imo.

Definitely terrestrial, if the shots were taken in burst mode.
Could be a fast (and low) flying bird, a plane or Superman.

Rick

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"EXT_Astro_Boy" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I also noticed in 3 of my closeup images that there was apparently an
object in transit across the face of the sun. I created an animated GIF
of these three. If anyone can tell me what the object might be I'd
appreciate it.

The transit shot is he



Take a look and tell me what you think?


Aeroplane? That would show up as a fast moving black dot through the filter
paper. I ran Starry Night across the whole of sun up for 30/10 and nothing
seemed to transit (although that's no guarantee that it didn't). My
co-ordinates are almost certainly different from yours though, so if you
post date, time, longitude and latitude of the shots, I'll look again on the
off chance that SN shows anything. Looked to be too large a spot and moving
too fast to be stellar, imo.

Definitely terrestrial, if the shots were taken in burst mode.
Could be a fast (and low) flying bird, a plane or Superman.

Rick

http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/daily_mpg/031026_c2.mpg

Stop the above video at 12:54

Looks like the same Object in his Gif


"EXT_Astro_Boy" wrote in message
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Rick,

There was no time between the exposures. I had the camera in continous
mode and the exposure for each image was 10000/1748251 seconds according
to the EXIF data on the original images. Once the 3 images were taken
they were written to the CF card.

Craig

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says...
"EXT_Astro_Boy" wrote in message
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Hi all,

Last week before So. Cal was overcome by fire and smoke I managed to
get
a few shots of the large sunspots that were visible at the time.

These were shot with my Meade ETX-105 an Orion 20mm Expanse eyepiece
and
my Casio Qv3500 ex digicam.

The solar filter was hommade using Baader solar film.

Here are two of the shots:



I also noticed in 3 of my closeup images that there was apparently an
object in transit across the face of the sun. I created an animated
GIF
of these three. If anyone can tell me what the object might be I'd
appreciate it.

The transit shot is he



Take a look and tell me what you think?

How long was it between each exposure? Could be a lot of things.

Rick