Active regions 1226 & 1227 on June 6, 2011

Posted by CraigAndTammy
on Friday, June 10, 2011

by Craig and Tammy Temple

The Sun was fairly active on June 6, 2011 when this image of Active Regions 1226 and 1227 were captured. AR1226 is the group of Sunspots toward the bottom of the image, and AR1227 is the Sunspot above. This is the false-color version of our original image.

Telescope: Lunt Solar Systems LS60THa/B1200CPT
Accessories: TeleVue 2.5x Powermate
Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G performance tuned by Astrotroniks
Camera: Imaging Source DMK31
Exposure: 1/60sec.
Gain: 481
Length: 2:00
Acquisition: IC Capture.AS (Uncompressed AVI) @ 30fps
Processing: Registax 6: best 65% frames
Post-processing: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Capture time: June 6, 2011, 9:01am CDST
Capture conditions: 76°F; transparency: Avg. 3/5; seeing: thin, intermittent clouds
Location: Hendersonville, TN, USA
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