Sunny Good Friday

Busy afternoon . This is the Lunt scope with stacked 2.8x and 2x barlows. Seeing not great but seeing some detail. Region 1193 is an active flare forming region and may have more to come. Click on the prom for an animation.

Back to the night sky

Before the moon returns with a vengance I got a couple of shots on Friday night including this of NGC3227 and 3226 just to the east of gamma Leonis (see diffraction spike)
8x5min 800iso

Sunny Monday afternoon

This solar malarkey's quite hard work, but I learn a little more each time. Onward and upward.

another prom sequence from today. 21st March

animated prom

another sunny day today. Here's a (2 frame) animation of one of the active prominences. Click on the pic to see animation

and another

More solar activity