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It's the Astronomy Online non-Blog, or un-Blog.
Everyone has a blog now and since I am no follower of trends, I decided to merge the blog with the website. And I don't want to neglect the website in favor of posting on the blog.
These are the pages that were on the blog of old:
- Home
- Archive (Index of Pages)
- Me
- Current Trends
- Links
- Soho Live
Links:
Google Maps - Mars
Google Maps - Moon
HiRISE
HiRISE - MRO Imaging
Mac Singularity
Meade4M
Slackerpedia Galactica
Software for the Mac
Starry Night Online
Venus Maps
More Favorites:
Thank you for visiting!
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A Solar Update:
Winter weather in northern California leaves little chance for solar viewing. However, today was a day of clear skies - a break between cold fronts.
I own a Coronado P.S.T. which is a very nice, and affordable, hydrogen-alpha solar telescope. I had on order, and received only recently, a complete set of Cemax eyepieces. These are specially made to increase the contrast of viewing through a solar telescope. I will attest to their abilities; using these eyepieces today I was able to see more detail versus standard eyepieces.
Using my Meade LPI and a Cemax 2x Barlow, I images a very impressive storm (actually two of them), seen below:
This image does not do justice to what I saw in the eyepiece, but you get the idea. The storm on the right is from the sunspot group 930, which is being rotated away from view. The SpaceWeather website gives wonderful real-time data on solar activity.
Image capture was performed using K3CCDTools and is an extraction of a single frame which was sharpened using PhotoShop.
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