Derby and District Astronomical Society
The Sun in 2024
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| Chris Callaway captured this image of the Sun in hydrogen-alpha light on the 17th August 2024 using a Coronado 90 solar telescope and ZWO 178MC camera. Image Credit: Chris Callaway. |
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This image of the Sun was taken in July 2024 by one of the founding members of the DDAS, Ed Spooner. Ed used a 6" refractor with a Baader filter and smartphone to capture this white light image, which shows many sunspots. Some cloud was passing in front of the Sun at the time. Image Credit: Ed Spooner.
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| Chris Callaway captured this image of the Sun in hydrogen-alpha light on the 28th July 2024 using a Coronado 90 solar telescope and ZWO 178MC camera. Image Credit: Chris Callaway. |
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| This image of the Sun in hydrogen-alpha light was captured on the 19th July 2024 by Chris Callaway using a Coronado 90 solar telescope and ZWO 178MC camera. Following that a couple of monochrome crops from the same data are shown. Finally, Chris also constructed a couple of videos from the same data, which are shown after the still images. Image Credit: Chris Callaway. |
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Chris Callaway put together the following video of this solar prominence from 8 minutes of data taken on the 18th July 2024 using a Coronado SolarMax II 90 and a ZWO 178 MC camera.
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| Chris Callaway captured this image of the Sun in hydrogen-alpha light on the 18th July 2024 using a Coronado 90 solar telescope and ZWO 178MC camera. The best 150 frames out of 600 were combined to produce the image. Image Credit: Chris Callaway. |
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| The following images of the Sun, captured by Chris Callaway on the 21st June 2024, show the difference between a white light solar filter attached to a Meade LX200 8" telescope on the left and a dedicated Coronado 90 solar telescope in H-alpha on the right. Both data sets were captured using a ZWO 178 MC camera. The best 150 out of 600 frames were used to produce the white light image, and the best 300 out of 1200 frames were used for the H-alpha image. Image Credit: Chris Callaway. |
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| Jim Sarsgard captured this image of the Sun on the 21st June 2024 using a Skywatcher 102mm F/12 Maksutov with a Baader Astrozap solar filer, mounted on a Skywatcher AZ-GTi mount, and a Canon 1000D camera at 1/320s and ISO100. Image Credit: Jim Sarsgard. |
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The following video of solar activity was constructed by Chris Callaway from two hours of data taken on the 19th May 2024 using a single stacked Coronado SolarMax II 90 and a ZWO178 colour camera.
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| These images were captured by Chris Callaway on 20 April 2024 using a Coronado 90 and ZWO178C camera on a Celestron AVX mount. Both images are the best 300 frames from 600 frame videos. Image Credit: Chris Callaway. |
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