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Posts Made By: Alan Friedman

September 20, 2004 02:25 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

solar eruption from 9-19-04

Posted By Alan Friedman
Hi all,

I was out trying to capture a cool looping prominence on the edge of the sun on Sunday. The seeing was changing rapidly so I kept slewing back and forth to different interesting areas on the sun to try and catch them as the air settled. I happened to catch this M1 flare in AR672 as it erupted. Still have many images to sort through - here is a look at the region before and after the eruption.

best,
Alan

September 20, 2004 02:32 PM Forum: Solar System Observing

eruption in AR672

Posted By Alan Friedman
I expect that many in the US got to observe this M1 class CME which erupted very conveniently midday on Sunday. I was fortunate to capture some before and after images of this flare which I also posted also on the Imaging forum:

http://www.astromart.com/forums/viewpost.asp?forum_post_id=252589&poll_id=&news_id=&page=

best,
Alan

September 24, 2004 09:44 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

sunset on the sun?

Posted By Alan Friedman
Here is a notable large solar prominence from last saturday shown in a somewhat different light.

what do you think - too weird?

Alan

October 2, 2004 05:18 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Jupiter - close

Posted By Alan Friedman
Apologies if you have seen an earlier version of this image. In an attempt to recapture hard drive space for new projects I spent some time finishing this image from earlier in the year. I used data from streams a couple of minutes on either side of the time shown to strengthen the signal and draw out as much definition as I could on Io.

Phillips ToUcam video captured through my A/P 10" mak and A/P 2x barcon during good seeing conditions in Cedar Key, FL.

best,
Alan

October 3, 2004 08:57 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

theophilus and friends

Posted By Alan Friedman
Greetings!

Theophilus and Cyrillus above and Aristoteles below. A couple of frames averaged from Astrovid footage taken last night during mediocre seeing (5/10). A/P 10" mak and Baader FFC.

best,
Alan

October 12, 2004 04:55 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

The coudy summer of 2004

Posted By Alan Friedman
Pardon the diversion. The summer of 2004 gave me lots of opportunity to work on these objects! This one date back to early July in New Hampshire. Note the blue sky peeking through - saw it a couple of times in August too..

Alan
(enjoying the clearer skies of fall)


October 29, 2004 05:44 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

the road to Kitt Peak

Posted By Alan Friedman
Sorry if I am off topic - but thought you might enjoy this image. Taken during the only cloudy day of a recent trip to Arizona, about 500 feet from the summit of Kitt Peak. The landscape flattens as you reach the top - here you can still see the ruggedness of the terrain, once home to Cochise, Geronimo and the Chiricahua Apache.

If you look closely you can see one of the dozens of domes that pepper the summit. I regret that I only brought a point and shoot camera with me. This panorama was made from 6 frames showing a field of view about 150 degrees.

enjoy the view,
Alan

December 10, 2004 06:16 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Re: Saturn on Dec 9, 2004

Posted By Alan Friedman
Eric -

Excellent images. I think I prefer the normal processing - seems to show the most detail and is very natural. The subtle dark minima in the crepe ring where it meets the B ring is evident on the left side.

great work,
Alan

December 16, 2004 06:45 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

sun shots

Posted By Alan Friedman
Hello all,

The sun made its first appearance here in several weeks today. Alas, it is too low in the sky for me to observe from my backyard. Below are two images taken in September and just processed - one from Black Forest Star Party, the other a week later from Buffalo - of active regions 672 and 673.

welcome back, sun - don't be a stranger!

Alan

January 7, 2005 06:15 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Re: Saturn on January 5th, 2005.

Posted By Alan Friedman
Just beautiful. Thanks for posting it.

Alan

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