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Tracking Sunspot AR2833, Steve Lantz

Tracking Sunspot AR2833

Tracking Sunspot AR2833, Steve Lantz

Tracking Sunspot AR2833

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The full solar disk image was taken at 10:39 MDT on 6/17/2021. It is a stack of the best15 frames out of a total of 168 frames recorded in a 20 s video (my planetary camera was on the fritz so I used my deep sky camera full field and that slowed the frame rate a lot). The inset is a stack of the best 40 of 3310 frames taken in a 20 s video in a 640 x 480 field taken at 10:48 (the narrowed field drastically improved the frame rate). I experimented with a green filter on this latter video to see if it would act somewhat like a Baader solar continuum filter. It may have helped a little, but after seeing Tristan's result with the Baader filter, I am going to get the genuine article. The color of the full disk image is imparted by the solar filter. The inset has been false colored to match the full disk image.

The amount of smoke in the sky from forest fires across the West really compromised the air transparency. I'm afraid we are in for a long forest fire season out here.

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Tracking Sunspot AR2833, Steve Lantz