05/04/24 Sun in CaK
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05/04/24 Sun in CaK
I got up at the leisurely hour of just after noon, and my other half informed me it had been a nice clear morning. Key word is had... Didn't really matter, as the Sun was behind my tree anyways and I had a few things to do.
Around 3:30 there was a break in the clouds banks slowly drifting in from the south. I figured I had about 20 minutes to get this done. You learn over the years chasing the Sun. Lately I've been using my SolarQuest, but I really didn't have the time to set that up. I took my manual CG4 from the shed and got my 61mm and laptop from the basement. Just for fun I timed all that. From opening the shed for getting the mount to being ready to start shooting took me 2 minutes and 18 seconds
Sure enough, my window lasted a bit over 20 minutes. In that time I got off 8 sets of 2000 frames at various exposures. I took the best stack in AS3 and stacked the best 20 frames.
A new spot is coming around the upper left of the disc, I'm betting 3667.
AR3663 is quite large and shaped like no spot I've seen in 8 years of Solar. Greg made a post about it here.
This is it with the Earth (the dot in the black square) for comparison.
And Jupiter (sorry for the bad crop, but I'm sure you get the idea)
Should be interesting to see how it goes. I would like to see that, but my weather forcast might have other plans
Hope you fare better!
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I will give it a go in the morning if the forecast is as currently promised, been thrilled with the uptick in activity seen so far and AR3663 is raising the bar nicely...
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