Noctilucent Clouds

Noctilucent clouds above Averbode reaching up to 60°. Observation done from UT20h08 till UT20h40.

Setting :

Nikon D7500 24mm f/4.5 ISO1600 and exposure time of 0,5s

Editing using CS4

Pictures of aurora or northern light published in magazine Heelal

My image and report out of  the geomagnetic storm with aurora of May 9th is published in magazine Heelal of July.

My Solar images published in magazine Heelal

 

My images of sunspot AR3664 and the sun in H-alpha are published in astronomy magazine "Heelal" of July. Nice !

H-Epsilon line

Sundisk captured in H-Epsilon Line.

Setting: TLAPO60/360 f/6 with Hoya ND16, Sol'Ex and ASI290MM

Software : SharpCap 4.1, JSolex 2.4.4 and CS4

Sun in different wavelenghts using Sol'ex

Using my Sol'Ex I'm able to image the sun in different wavelenghts, like H-alpha, H-Beta, Magnesium b1, Helium D3, Ca H, H-alpha doppler. Never thougt I was able to do this.. but see, using my Sol'Ex it became reality.

He I D3 image of Sun June 8

I made different video's of the spectrum near Na D1 and Na D2 in view of procession He I D3 line.
I used JSolex version 2.4.4 using automated detection and full process. Next I searched manual the Spectrum line using Spectrum Debugger. Processing the image with Imagemath :

fixing_banding (clahe (img(Hed3) -continuum), 1.5), 30,20)

Set up :

TLAPO 60/360 f/6, Hoya 1.6, Sol'Ex, ASI290MM

Sharpcap 4, JSolex, IMPPG, CS4

I compared my he I D3 with the one from Didier Favre from the same day and is comparable.

http://solardatabase.free.fr

I got an invitation from Didier Favre to upload my images of the sun on the website http://solardatabase.free.fr/#

I uploading images from June 9th : H-alpha, Doppler, H-beta and Ca-H line.

Doppler Effect of Sun June 9

 

Doppler Image of Sun (H-Alpha) of June 9, 2024 processed with JSolex. 

Sun in Mg I(b1)

My first image of the Sun in Magnesium I (b1).

Setting :

- TLAPO60/360 f/6 with Sol'Ex and ASI290MM

- Hoya 1.6 filter  

- Software : SharpCap, SHG and CS4

Compare with H-Alpha image:

Sun in H-Beta

My first picture of the Sun in H-beta. Image taken using my Sol'Ex.

Setting: 

- TLAPO60/360 f/6 with ASI290MM

- Hoya 1.6 filter

- Sol' Ex

- Sharpcap, SHG, CS4

For comparison with H-Alpha and CaH line

H-Alpha Sundisk with Scale

The Sun in H-alpha from May 10, 2024 and adding a scale to have insight of the dimensions.

Scale template from http://solardatabase.free.fr/#