Solar hydrogen alpha observation

I checked the Sun in hydrogen alpha light with the PST at 1235GMT. There was some haze about (that dissuaded me from trying the Moon as well) but I could see a nice prominence, the sunspot and a filaprom (filament joining up to a prominence) clearly.

Sunspot Drawing

I bin scanned the Sun before work and saw that the single sunspot had apparently shrunk from the day before.

Moon with Jupiter

At 1810 GMT, I snapped the Moon with Jupiter but Aldebaran also came out in the photo.

Full disc Moon shot

At 1740 GMT I did some full disc shots of the Moon using my Skymax 127 and compact digital camera. The idea was to take several frames and combine them, as I usually do but only one frame was usable. On the other hand, the result didn’t look too bad.

Sun in hydrogen alpha light

At 1125 GMT I checked the Sun in hydrogen alpha light with my PST. The surface was rather bland, apart from a prominence, a filament and the sunspot I had seen in “white light”. Viewing and photography was difficult because of moving cloud.

Sunspot Drawing

Clear sky at last! I binned scanned the Sun during a break in class and saw just a single sunspot.

 

Andriomeda by compact digital camera

A further 6 shots were used to obtain this shot of Andromeda, also showing the Square of Pegasus, Aries and Triangulum.