Object Name: Sun in Ha
Object Type: Full disk solar sketch
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Date: April 22, 2012
Media: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Equipment: Coronado PST/Solarmax 40
Amazing view of the Sun through my Coronado PST/Solarmax 40 DS. Many active regions, filaments, sunspots and a big prominence!! Sketch made in Photoshop CS3.
Greetings from Greece!
I send you here my first sketch made with my L35ST Lunt H-alpha
telescope (not the first one with h-alpha telescopes tho).
I used 57x and 80x zoom for sketching.
The most interesting part was this very long filament, which was there
for 3 days constantly and almost in the same size.
The red-orange parts are showing the lighter areas.
Time & Date: 6th April 2012, UT: 9:30 – 10:00
Media: Graphite and colour pencil used on white paper.
Equipment: 35/400 Lunt H-alpha telescope on EQ2 mount.
Place: Budapest, Hungary
Hello!
The Sun is my fawourite object to sketch that is why I am sending you this sketch, drawn 9.11.2011 at 12:20, in Ely, England.
I have used my SkyMaster 15×70 binoculars and the foil filter (Seymour Solar) which gives natural looking colors (The Sun is orange).
The conditions that day where cloudy, so I had to be patient waiting for The Sun to reappear from behind the clouds.
I have used graphite pencils and the stamps to draw it on smooth white paper. The drawing is 16 cm( 6,2 inch ) in diameter.
Object type – Huge filament and prominence
Location – Wilp, The Netherlands
Date – November 12 and November 14, 2011
Media – Pastel pencil on black paper, color with Photoshop
The largest prominence and the largest filament I have ever seen, both visible at the same time! It was a fantastic view and I made two sketches of them, two days apart. On November 14, the huge filament blew a large part of itself away from the Sun at the exact moment I was observing, creating a thin candle-like flame above the surface. A remarkable sight. Clearly the Sun is getting more active every month. What it’s got left in its suprise box while creeping towards solar maximum? Can’t wait to find out!
Sun sketch in white light including the huge AR11339 spot group– graphite pencil on white paper with prepared template. Location – Windsor ON Canada, 4 November 2011. Equipment – 50 mm refractor, Baader film filter and 15 mm Konig ep.
Location: Bialystok, Poland
Date: 22 Oct 2011, 0730-0830 local time
Media: Digital tools (Photoshop)
Weather: Cloudy and foggy morning, temperature -2 degree Celsius
Equipment: Binoculars Bresser Hunter 10×50