Solar observing sessions

by Joe Huber

I had the old H-Alpha scope out today to mess with a ToUCam that I have had for a while. Here is a link to the images I captured. I was kind of in a hurry to just capture something so the size is real small. I thing I need a new laptop to capture 640x480 images. I tried some to capture some later but I was dropping double the number captures. The first is the prominence and the second is the spot. I think I need to get an IR blocking filter because when I was imaging the prominence I had to turn the saturation way down almost to the point of black and white. You can kind of see it in the image but a cone shaped red area was emanating from the prominence.

http://www.nightskyz.com/gallery/DelSol/First_ProminanceCS
http://www.nightskyz.com/gallery/DelSol/SunSpot2

Posted on sf-bay-tac Dec 21, 2004 15:21:57 PT
Converted by report.pm 1.2 Jan 24, 2005 19:45:11 PT