The Dutch Observatory

The forecast for the next two days does not look good, but I got my share of the photons this morning and used some of them to make these images of the sun.  A new sunspot seems to be forming.  Its structure can be seen a little more detailed in the second image left of center, which is my first solar image using a Meade 140 2x barlow on a short snout for the camera so I can reach focus.

Here the reprocessed images from before.  I believe I like this representation better

Stephen came over yesterday to do some imaging.  Well, there has never been so much astro equipment around my humble observatory.  I made several CaK images of the sun with my PST CaK and have posted the best one below.  Because of Stephen being there, I made a few H-alpha images of some prominances with his Solar Max 90.  (Great scope)  Two images in inverted H-alpha.   One of them shows a part of AR1127  (left bottom)  I might go back and reprocess them with a normal black and white sky/prom background.  I am surpirsed how good they came out.  The seeing conditions were terribel and sometimes it looked like the limb of the sun was waiving in the wind…….. Registax did a great job here!