A string of active regions runs across pretty much the whole disk of the sun today (4.24.2022)--a big change from what was visible just a few days ago. The main active regions are AR 2293-2294, which has the potential to produce M-Class solar flares. Here's an inverted image of the sun, and, for a change, a white light image of the disk showing sunspots and penumbral areas.
The trials, tribulations and small triumphs of a Charlotte, NC astronomer imaging under Bortle 8/9 skies.
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Leo Triplet (Seestar S 50)
5 hours on the Leo Triplet in EQ mode. I'm impressed with the amount of detail the scope captured in that time (zoom in to see it). Bort...

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I had a couple of emails asking how to defork an ETX telescope. The ETX 90 and ETX 125 were optically superb scopes, but the mounts left a...
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The ZEQ25 doing its stuff on a cold night--imaging the Orion Nebula with an 8 inch f/4 astrograph. Note the lovely Christmas rug :) As ...
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Like the Ring Nebula, the Dumbbell nebula is a planetary nebula marking the end of a star's life as it puffs off its outer layers into s...
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