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Solar Viewing - March 28, 2010

posted Mar 28, 2010, 3:44 PM by James Roe   [ updated Mar 29, 2010, 11:59 AM ]
The Sun is becoming more and more active as the next sunspot maximum heats up.  Today I used the 60mm H alpha telescope to view a couple of sunspot groups and a spectacular prominence on the limb.  Below is a stacked image of some 868 frames taken with a ToUcam using K3CCDtools and processed with Registax.



Below are some images of my setup.  Note the elegant means to view the laptop screen in the bright sunlight!






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