Sun, clouds and sunset

After a cloudy evening, this beautiful sunset.

Lunt or PST Coronado

During today's Solar View Day I was impressed when looking to the sun using solarscope Lunt owned by one of our Helios members. I was easy to see the protuberance aswell a the sunspots. Using my Orionxt 12 with Baader film in visual yellow was different but less spectacular. When looking into the PST Coronado 40mm it was difficult to have a stable view. This was probably caused by heavy wind aswell high clouds. During the next days i will try out the PST.

July 5th Flanders Solar Viewing Day

Today July 5th the Flanders region of Belgium organised a Solar Viewing Day. Together with many other organisation also Helios was present.

After an entire week of sunshine and more then 35°C, today was a cloudy day and we even got some rain. Luckely we could observe the sun and had some interested visitors aswell.

Halo 22° and Upper Tangent Arc

This evening, nice halo's 22° on both side of the sun. And a couple of minutes later I could withness a upper tangent arc aswell.

Solargraph 2014-2015

It's always a special and exciting moment when you open the pinholecamera. In total 6 months exposure to all kind of weather conditions : snow, rain, freezing, fog and sunny.
This time two pinhole camera's were installed with the following result.

Beautiful sundog

This evening, low at the sky, a beautiful sundog or phantom sun could be observed.

Phantom sun with on the low-left the top of a balloon.

The sun on the right, the phantom sun on the left. 

Observing the sun on July 5th 2015

On July 5th, 2015, the Flanders region will organize activities to observing the sun.
See also http://www.vvs.be/subsite/zonnekijkdag/ontdek-onze-zon-op-5-juli-2015
I will keep you informed.