Sun and Moon

Moon First View

Tsukiyono — Tue, 21 May 2013 05:21:24 GMT

First time getting a chance to use my Canon Digital Rebel XSI with my Celestron Nexstar 4se. Enjoyed the experience greatly.

Sun in H-alpha May 7th

Jean B — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:13:34 GMT

Lunt LS60THa;
DMK21;
Registax 5.0, PS CS2

Montreal, Canada

Solar Disk with Prominences in h-alpha, May 12, 2013

mborman — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:03:50 GMT

Image taken by Mike Borman from Evansville, Indiana, with a Televue 102iis refractor, Coronado SM90 BF30 h-alpha filter, .5x reducer, Imaging Source DMK51AU02.AS camera. Processed with Registax and Photoshop. More images at www.mborman.org .

Solar Disk with Prominences in CaK, May 12, 2013

mborman — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:01:22 GMT

Image taken by Mike Borman from Evansville, Indiana, with a Lunt LS60T CaK refractor, Imaging Source DMK51AU02.AS camera. Processed with Registax and Photoshop. More images at www.mborman.org .

Large Solar Prominence in H-alpha, May 12, 2013

mborman — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:58:36 GMT

Image taken by Mike Borman from Evansville, Indiana, with a Televue 102iis refractor, Coronado SM90 BF30 h-alpha filter, 2x barlow, Imaging Source DMK51AU02.AS camera. Processed with Registax and Photoshop. More images at www.mborman.org .

Bright Solar Prominence in H-alpha, May 12, 2013

mborman — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:57:04 GMT

Sunspots 1744, and 1745 in White Light, May 12, 2013

mborman — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:54:28 GMT

Image taken by Mike Borman from Evansville, Indiana, with a Orion 100mm f/9 ED refractor, Lunt white light solar wedge, 2x barlow, Imaging Source DMK51AU02.AS camera. Processed with Registax and Photoshop. More images at www.mborman.org .

Sunspots 1744, and 1745 in CaK, May 12, 2013

mborman — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:52:20 GMT

Image taken by Mike Borman from Evansville, Indiana, with an Orion 100mm f/9 ED refractor, Lunt CaK filter, 2x barlow, Imaging Source DMK51AU02.AS camera. Processed with Registax and Photoshop. More images at www.mborman.org .

Sunspots 1743, 1744, and 1745 in H-alpha, May 12, 2013

mborman — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:50:06 GMT

Loop prominence

mr40mm — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:42:29 GMT

This image was taken May 13, 2013 at 16:53 UT. Shows a post flare loop prominence captured with my AP 152mm F8 and DayStar Quantum PE .5 Angstrom H-alpha filter and PGR's Flea2 video ccd camera.

The Sun

MrSunders — Sun, 12 May 2013 13:28:22 GMT

Sun in H-alpha light.

Telescope: Coronado PST, Camera: Point Grey GRAS14S3M, Mount: Vixen Porta.

Average of 1024 frames, deconvolution.

Vladimir Knyaz, Moscow, Russia

Two Day Old Moon and Aldebaran

Victor C. Rogus — Sun, 12 May 2013 03:16:42 GMT

Tonight I wish to submit an image I made of a beautiful Two Day Old Moon and the Star, Aldebaran. I made the image at 20:54:28 local time here in Jadwin, Missouri on 05/11/2013. I had been rained out the evening before as I tried to photograph the new Moon, only hours old. But tonight we enjoyed crystal clear skies with a slight chill in the air, but a wonderful night all the same. The Moon hung high in the West with mighty Jupiter above it. Below the Moon was the bright reddish Star, Aldebaran. Aldebaran, seemed to be bidding farewell for the Winter season as it hung low over the tree line. Some call it, "The Eye of Taurus, the Bull", but it was conspicuous, and made a wonderful pairing with this young Moon. My exposure time was 1/6 of a second at f4.1 and an ISO of 640 was used with my Cannon 60Da astro camera, that was fitted with a Baader Vario Finder Scope as a lens. This lens is a Carl Zeiss design and is a 61mm x 250 fl. It makes a great lens for conjunctions and shots like this one.

Super Moon 3/19/11

Eric Marcy — Sat, 11 May 2013 14:28:21 GMT

3/19/11, Super Moon, closest the moon has been to the earth since 1993

Moon collage

White Pine Photo — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:13:09 GMT

Photos shot over a 9 day period

A face in our Sun

starfish430 — Sun, 05 May 2013 03:51:14 GMT

On a slow prominence day, the Sun had great activity on the surface. One of the most interesting features is seen just south of the center. An area where sunspots and filaments have come together, you will notice that a face with a rather evil smile appears to have emerged.

This image was captured on 4/5/2013 in Laurel, MD USA using the following:

Telescope - Lunt 60mm Hydrogen Alpha in the double stack configuration

Camera - The Imaging Source DMK-51

Processing - RegiStax 6 (3 images stacked0

- Photoshop

- Photoshop Lightroom 4