By now it’s already 5 weeks ago that the Total Solar Eclipse took place in the US which millions of people looked forward to for a long time. Now I’m finally finished with processing most of the data of the eclipse and I want to share the results here. About 1,5 years ago we decided …
Already over a month ago we could enjoy the Mercury transit over the Sun. Yesterday I looked into the SDO satellite data archive to look at some images of the transit (which are great) and decided to use one of the images which was taken almost at the same time as my own image of …
Today was one of the rare occasions that Northern lights were visible from the Southern part of the Netherlands. I went into the polder to a dark place to see if I could catch a glimpse of it. I was nicely surprised 🙂 Camera: Canon EOS40D with 18-200 Tamron zoomlens @ 18mm F3.5 10sec …
The sun as imaged in H-alpha on 08/09/2014. Telescope: TMB-92SS Camera: DMK21-618 H-alpha: Lunt LS75
Here are some images and an animation taken on the 8th of July 2013 using my Lunt-60 solar telescope and Robtics ED110 with Herschel prism or Lunt 75mm etalon. Finally here is an animation showing about 100 minutes of solar activity:
This is a H-alpha solar image taken with my ED110 with Lunt LS75 etalon and BF1200 blocking filter. Camera: DMK21