9-panel Solar Mosaic - June 23, 2013

Posted by CraigAndTammy
on Wednesday, June 26, 2013

In this mosaic of the Sun, you will find many active regions with plages and filaments as well as some nice prominences along the solar limb. The active regions in this image are AR1776 & AR1773 (top left), AR1772 (top right), and AR1775 (lower right).

Telescope: Lunt Solar Systems LS60THa/B1200CPT
Accessories: JMI EV1n motorized focuser; LS50FHa Double-stack etalon; TeleVue 2.5x Powermate
Mount: Takahashi EM-200 Temma2
Camera: Imaging Source DMK31
Exposure: 35.9ms
Gain: 663
Length: 1:30 @ 15fps each panel (9 panels)
Acquisition: Fire Capture
Processing: Registax 6
Post-processing: ImagesPlus 5.0; Adobe Photoshop CS5
Capture time: June 23, 2013, 10:14am - 10:32am
Capture conditions: 87.4ºF - 88.7ºF ; transparency: Poor 1/5; seeing: Excellent 5/5
Location: Hendersonville, TN, USA
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