Sun Spots (20230118) - better seeing, better details! (firstLight)

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Sun Spots (20230118) - better seeing, better details!

Sun Spots (20230118) - better seeing, better details!

After two early mornings to capture the waning Moon crescent, I had hoped for a continuation with a third successful image today.

No way - too many clouds!

I had no hope to capture the Sun today, due to again bad weather predictions. But it came out different: Though extended clouds disturbed and interrupted several imaging tries, I noticed much better seeing than over weeks to date.

Without an equatorial mount – but instead a photo tripod – it was hard to follow the sun with a small sensor ROI. It vanished ... and re-appeared. But as soon as the Sun was freely visible in a blue hole, the much better seeing was a true blessing! so I made several 1000 frames series with many stops in between to wait for clouds to pass by and to re-adjust the Sun disk to the sensor ROI's left side again.

Finally, I am really happy with today's conditions and my processing result.

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Title: Seeing Animation (20230118)

Description: Much better seeing since weeks to date - what a blessing!

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Title: Active Regions layer (20230118)

Description: Hand made layer with Active Regions (ARs) on 20230118, Made with Gimp on Linux.

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