Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Saturday, September 14, 2024

The Sun on September 3, 2024

 AR3813 (largest spot toward bottom of the disk), has the potential to produce M-Class flares.




The Sun on September 1, 2024

  AR3806 (center left on disk) has the capability to produce X-Class flares.




The Sun on August 31, 2024

AR3806 (the spot group towards the bottom of the disk), has the potential to produce X-Class flares.



Tuesday, September 10, 2024

The Pelican

 The Pelican Nebula.is part of the North America Nebula complex, and is an active stellar nursery. There are several Harbig-Haro objects in this image. Harbig-Haro objects are bright patches of nebulosity associated with newborn stars. This image is a stack of about 2 hours of integration time. It was processed in Siril, Topaz Denoise, Affinty, and Photoshop Express.



In the Heart of the Heart...

The heart of the Heart. This is a stack of 2721 x 10s integrations (7.5 hours). Stacking and initial histogram stretch/star processing in Si...