I'm playing catch up with posts at present (life and work intervened). North Carolina typically has rather cloudy skies in Summer, and clouds have definitely interrupted observations. This post has images of the whole solar disk, as well as a close up of AR3058, which had the potential for X-Class flares (the most powerful flares the Sun produces). I've also included the image of a very large limb prominence.
The trials, tribulations and small triumphs of a Charlotte, NC astronomer imaging under Bortle 8/9 skies.
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The Tulip Nebula—Hubble Palette
This image is just over 3 hours of integration on the Tulip Nebula. The image was stacked with star processing, initial histogram stretch, a...

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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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