A place for all members to share their own 'great photos'

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Edited January 12Jan 12 by Mike
tile and intro updated Jan 2025

Common Buzzard taking flight in the sunset.

Short Eared Owl on Norfolk Broads.

Benji bring that record back 😂

🤣🤣

Not a dog but bobby on meerkat duties 

4 minutes ago, Steviehay said:

Not a dog but bobby on meerkat duties 

Bobby is cute,my benji does that meerkat impression when he isnt steeling records😂

Just had a lovely session on the Sun with a massive active region putting on a fine show at the moment , easily visible to the naked eye using eclipse glasses or other suitable protection such as a Shade 14 welder's mask.

Shot with a Canon EOS 6D through a Skywatcher Evostar 150 and Baader ND3.8 Imaging film + Oiii + UV/IR Cut.

Close-up through same 'scope using an Altair Astro 174MM.

 

 

 

 

3 hours ago, Woodbutcher said:

Just had a lovely session on the Sun with a massive active region putting on a fine show at the moment , easily visible to the naked eye using eclipse glasses or other suitable protection such as a Shade 14 welder's mask.

Shot with a Canon EOS 6D through a Skywatcher Evostar 150 and Baader ND3.8 Imaging film + Oiii + UV/IR Cut.

Close-up through same 'scope using an Altair Astro 174MM.

 

 

 

 

Superb photos,really good👍

Cueva de Nerja

Cockwood Harbour Devon River Exe estuary

A side by side comparison between the 3rd and 5th May showing the changes in the massive active region 14079.

For an idea of the scale of this thing each of the individual convection cells in the image covers roughly the area of Texas meaning that from end to end the entire region is about ten Earth diameters across ... 

 

The cells really pop when the image is inverted.

 

 

 

 

 

Prague today (9th May)

The enormous active region is fast rotating towards the limb and will be gone in a couple of days , here's how it looked this morning.

For scale you could drop the Earth inside either of the darkest umbral areas ... !

 

 

 

12 hours ago, Woodbutcher said:

The enormous active region is fast rotating towards the limb and will be gone in a couple of days , here's how it looked this morning.

For scale you could drop the Earth inside either of the darkest umbral areas ... !

 

 

 

Incredible and mind blowing👍

One last clear view , tomorrow it will be rounding the limb. There's a slender chance it might hang on for another dozen days and reappear on the other side again.

 

Genuinely curious, when you say “it”, what’s “it” and what is the “limb” and while I’m at it “the other side”?

3 hours ago, Woodbutcher said:

One last clear view , tomorrow it will be rounding the limb. There's a slender chance it might hang on for another dozen days and reappear on the other side again.

 

 

7 minutes ago, Middleman said:

Genuinely curious, when you say “it”, what’s “it” and what is the “limb” and while I’m at it “the other side”?

 

"It" is an enormous active region or sunspot on our local star , the "limb" is edge of the visible disc of the Sun and "the other side" in this context is the limb on the left-hand side of the disc.

The Sun rotates about once every 27 days and sometimes sunspots are big and strong enough to stay active for the 12 days or that elapse between them disappearing from view to them re-emerging again on the opposite side.

Here's "it's" journey across the disc from 29th April to today scaled down to about 10% of original.

 

45 minutes ago, Woodbutcher said:

"It" is an enormous active region or sunspot on our local star , the "limb" is edge of the visible disc of the Sun and "the other side" in this context is the limb on the left-hand side of the disc.

The Sun rotates about once every 27 days and sometimes sunspots are big and strong enough to stay active for the 12 days or that elapse between them disappearing from view to them re-emerging again on the opposite side.

Here's "it's" journey across the disc from 29th April to today scaled down to about 10% of original.

 

Perfectly explained (and I learnt something!) thank you.

P.S. You ever photographed a solar flare? 

cheers
 

 

 

 

 

2 minutes ago, Middleman said:

Perfectly explained (and I learnt something!) thank you.

P.S. You ever photographed a solar flare? 

cheers
 

 

 

 

 

I only image the photosphere (visible surface of the Sun) where flares and prominences etc are invisible to the human eye.

To capture flares and other features in the chromosphere in the Hydrogen alpha wavelength requires a jump from a £20.00 filter to a piece of kit that costs a minimum of £1000.00 , it's a jump I intend taking one day but I'm still deciding on exactly which bit of kit to choose.

34 minutes ago, Woodbutcher said:

I only image the photosphere (visible surface of the Sun) where flares and prominences etc are invisible to the human eye.

To capture flares and other features in the chromosphere in the Hydrogen alpha wavelength requires a jump from a £20.00 filter to a piece of kit that costs a minimum of £1000.00 , it's a jump I intend taking one day but I'm still deciding on exactly which bit of kit to choose.

Most of that went over my head LOL, still awesome pictures WB, good luck choosing and buying the next bit of kit, looking forward to the results when you do.

All the best

Don't know whether this interests anybody, maybe it would if it was your town growing up.

I moved from Acocks Green in B'ham to Shirley, then to Knowle/ Solihull in the 7ts. Anyhow these are two images of Solihull High Street, the one from the late 5ts, and I guess the other being grabbed by me tonight from the Solihull council web page, pretty recent.

Dunno about you, but the 5ts looked like a pretty good lively high street.

Tony Turner and me travelled up to Newark last year, never been there before, looked like a nice market town, but as our hosts (Dean/Gez) said, not what it was.  Perhaps folks could post up their high street, then and now... be interested to see the change, good or bad.

btw, if there was a solar flare, could it oblitorate Acocks Green, its become a s**t Hole now 😞

On 23/04/2025 at 20:17, Steviehay said:

Not a dog but bobby on meerkat duties 

I think this really is a Meerkat and in time honoured NS fashion you covered it up (c/u) as your dog.😉

1 hour ago, Kenb said:

I think this really is a Meerkat and in time honoured NS fashion you covered it up (c/u) as your dog.😉

Sussed me