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Sonnenflecken / Sun Spots - 20211218, firstLight

Sonnenflecken / Sun Spots - 20211218

Sonnenflecken / Sun Spots - 20211218, firstLight

Sonnenflecken / Sun Spots - 20211218

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Sonnenflecken / Sun Spots - 20211218

Though we have a couple of very nice days with deep blue skies here in the Alps, the seeing unfortunately continues to be very poor. Nevertheless I took a series of 90 images in the morning as soon as the sun had raised higher than the mountains (~0930h CET). Some hours later, around noon, I took another series of ~200 images.

The first series showed up very poor after stacking (PIPP and Fitswork) ... frustrating! The second series around noon showed up a bit better, maybe thanks to the higher number of single shots I stacked. Seeing was still poor on the camera's display ....

The reason: I have watched this nice chain of smaller sun spot groups on solarmonitor.org for multiple days already and was able to take a good series the day before yesterday. Please compare my current result with NASA's continuum photo from this same day.

Capture time 121600h to 121701h CET.

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Sonnenflecken / Sun Spots - 20211218, firstLight