It was overcast yesterday; so, there was no solar image porn. Today, we had high, cirrus clouds over much of the sky. I think that they diminished the quality of my solar images just a bit. I also experimented with binning the Barlow-magnified images. Binning means combining several pixels to create a bigger pixel. After all this tinkering, I think that the prime focus image from this scope is about as good as it is going to get, and adding Barlows and binning, if it helps at all, affects the resolution minimally.
For me, the point of this hobby is to learn new things so that my brain doesn’t turn into tapioca, as one of my friends has said.
Today’s H-alpha image shows a loverly arch prominence along the sun’s NE limb.
The sunspot image shows new group AR3912 emerging from the sun’s eastern limb.
