Sun Spot AR2727

Sun spot AR2727 from 11-18-2019

Solar Prom from 11-10-2018

Here' an image of sun spot AR2721 taken September 9th, 2018.

Here's a close up of a solar flare from September 1, 2018. I'm starting to get things dialed in now!

DayStar Quark Chromosphere 1st Light.

Here's my 1st light using my Quark. I had quite a bit of trouble with the first 2 Quarks I purchased. Neither were capable of producing an image that compared to others photos that I had seen. With quite a bit of help from one of my 'forum friends' on Astronomyforum.net and the people at OPT (Oceanside Photo and Telescope) I was able to demonstrate that something was wrong. So this morning I fired up "Q3" (my 3rd Quark) and captured the following image. This is actually 2 images combined. One of the prominence and one of the surface stacked together. Because it requires a longer exposure to capture the prominence's you have to process two images to make one. This was captured using my Explore Scientific ES80ed-CF telescope on my EQ6g mount, the Quark and then my new ZWO ASI174mm-C camera. 

Enjoy! (more to follow!)

My best Jupiter (so far)

I don't really have a planetary imaging setup. But still, I'm pretty happy with the results!

Scope: ES ED80cf
mount: Orion Atlas EQ6g
Camera: ZWO ASI 120mc
Televue 5x Barlow.

Best 40% stacked from 500 images.

The Wizard (NGC7380)

I was able to capture a few (3) SII (sulfur) last night. So I added them to my Ha images and here's what I got. I used the Ha for Luminance and Red and the SII as blue and green. Hopefully I can capture the O3 tonight and finish it up!

Wizard Nebula: (from Wikipedia) NGC 7380 (also known as the Wizard Nebula) is an open cluster discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787. William Herschel included his sister's discovery in his catalog, and labelled it H VIII.77. It is also known as 142 in the 1959 Sharpless catalog (Sh2-142). This reasonably large nebula is located in Cepheus. It is extremely difficult to observe visually, usually requiring very dark skies and an O-III filter.

Located 7200 light years away, the Wizard nebula, surrounds developing open star cluster NGC 7380. Visually, the interplay of stars, gas, and dust has created a shape that appears to some like a fictional medieval sorcerer. The active star forming region spans 100 about light years, making it appear larger than the angular extent of the Moon. The Wizard Nebula can be located with a small telescope toward the constellation of the King of Aethiopia (Cepheus). Although the nebula may last only a few million years, some of the stars being formed may outlive our Sun.