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still cloudy

Jeff USN Photog 72-76 wrote in post #19169363
still cloudy

Bummer. Sorry to hear that.

Today ALL DAY LONG it was crystal clear! I was sure I would get to take great shots of the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction, then one hour BEFORE sunset the thick clouds came rolling in.

DANG IT!!

A fairly big spot is rounding the limb right now. We should have a clear view by tomorrow sometime.

Very best,

We are overcast until Saturday and Sunday and then next week sleet and snow for 5 days at least

Dec 22nd, 2020

AR2794 is a fair active region with more area and a fair spot with a good penumbra.

Upper Chromosphere with Sunspot, Plage, Filaments, Mottling, Surge Prominences (B&W, Colored, Alt B&W & Alt Colored):

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Impatience set in this afternoon and I just had to see if my filter holder was going to work in my train(home brew). So I put the solar filter on and grabbed a quick shot of the latest sunspot activity. 2794 and 2795 I believe.

ZWO ASI290MM and Apertura 72 shot through a 7nm Ha filter.(test I said
False color

Great to see some spots!

Very best,

Jan 18th, 2021

AR2797 has a decent sunspot with it rounding the limb that is belching up some nice big filaments. There's a string of filaments along the entire active belt of cycle 25 right now. Nice to see a spot return after many days spotless after such great activity a few weeks ago.

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Jan 21, 2021

AR2797 is still putting on a nice show, some minor flaring in the plage trailing the main of the dipole and some lovely dark filaments in the region. HA, CaK & WL here from a 100mm refractor.

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now besides clouds we got over 12 inches of show yesterday will take a few days to dig my way to the observatory and dig it out

Jeff USN Photog 72-76 wrote in post #19192453
now besides clouds we got over 12 inches of show yesterday will take a few days to dig my way to the observatory and dig it out

Sorry to hear that Jeff........

shoveled out, but now the snow is getting blown off the pine tree and my luck I would get all set up and have a bunch of snow land on the scope covering it.

snow today

Jeff USN Photog 72-76 wrote in post #19192586
shoveled out, but now the snow is getting blown off the pine tree and my luck I would get all set up and have a bunch of snow land on the scope covering it.

snow today

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I have maybe 4-5 inches of snow currently on the ground. It is also snowing here now, but a very light snow fall. The worst of it here is the temperature at around 10°. This morning it was 0° with wind chills way below that.

What is it in your photo appearing between your 2 scopes looks like in a bush or shrub?

do you mean the holly bush? plus you can see the large shopping mall beyond the second house