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Sunspots 3-2-2021 & 3-3-2021, Steve Lantz

Sunspots 3-2-2021 & 3-3-2021

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Sunspots 3-2-2021 & 3-3-2021, Steve Lantz

Sunspots 3-2-2021 & 3-3-2021

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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I hadn't imaged the sun for awhile, so I thought I should take a look and see what was going on. The sunspot number should be ramping up now, but from what I've seen this is not happening to the degree that we might have hoped. Still, there were two rather diminutive groupings. I imaged both groups, 2807 on 3-2 and 2806 on 3-3. Video at about 60 fps was captured for 15 s multiple times with an EFL of about 1400 mm. The wind was a problem and I had to deal with camera shake in post-processing; daytime seeing is always iffy and for both images it was rather poor. I ended up stacking 15 frames out about 950 from the two best videos to get the two final images. These are white light images, the only filters being luminance to block IR and UV and the solar filter.

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Sunspots 3-2-2021 & 3-3-2021, Steve Lantz