The Wizard Reprocessed

 Just for fun, I reprocessed my image of the Wizard nebula in pseudo-Hubble palette. It introduced more noise, but produced a rather nice

The sun on August 5, 2024

 The Sun today—August 5, 2024. It was cloudy today, so this is a single image capture. The Sun continues active, with a new, very large sunspot group (AR3780–bottom of image), that has the potential to produce large flares.

The Sun on August 4, 2024

 The Sun on August 4, 2024.  Large spot is emerging into the disk (visible on the left rim of the Sun in this image). 

The Sun on August 3, 2024

 The Sun on August 3, 2024. There are seven spots capable of producing high energy flares on the Sun today. This is an unusually large number of potential flare sites.

The Sun on August 2, 2024

 The Sun on August 2, 2024. There are seven spots capable of producing high energy flares on the Sun today. This is an unusually large number of potential flare sites.

A Celestial Wizard

 The Wizard Nebula, NGC 7380, is an open star cluster with surrounding nebulosity. The HIi region is powered by a close binary pair of massive O-type stars. Imaged with the Seestar, this image has a total of almost 2 hours of integration time with the scope’s built-in HIi/OIII filter. The nebula is sometimes called The Harry Potter and the Golden Snitch Nebula.

The Sun on August 1, 2024

 Today’s Sun: August 1, 2024. 7 of the spot groups on the Sun today have magnetic fields that can produce strong solar flares.