The day was too unsteady as
evidenced by a halo on the moon at 3:00 a.m. in the morning.
This should signify some ice crystals hovering high in the atmosphere, and I expect the
sky not to be in A1 condition. True enough, the sky was hazy but still the morning sun
shone so bright that sunburn was still possible had we stayed longer than 3 hours. The
surrounding sky was not jet blue, only a touch of blueness suggesting a so-so sky
condition. The sky was very unsteady, it made my solar edges on my images very wavy,
contributing so much difficulty for me to have a good timing of the 3rd and 4th contact. I
only relied on my judgement to produce the timings I have here below.
 08:08:45 AM |
 08:10:23 AM |
The sky removes the glory of HA filters we have in tow, where prominences and surface
features were a challenge to see, let alone image. I made a big booboo when I detuned the
filter while experimenting with the effects of details around the very dark and newly born
sunspot, and forgot to return it to normal position when I attached my digicam in the hope
of getting a new timing for the chromospheric sun. Pity too, on Mr. Alex Loinaz, who got
some images through my HA set-up, where all the details of HA were rendered invisible
because I forgot to retune the filter. Sorry about that.
07:09:30 AM
Overall, my whitelight images and HA image were only satisfactory at best, but am glad it
was not the worse of its kind. Some images were salvaged and am a bit happy that I can at
least contribute some pics here, finally!
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