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Solar Mosaic - October 1, 2011 image

Solar Mosaic - October 1, 2011


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This 4-panel mosaic of the Sun, taken on October 1, 2011, shows many sunspots, plages, and filaments. The sunspots, some of the plages, and some of the filaments are contained in areas of the Sun called active regions. The active regions that are visible in this image, from the lower-left edge to the upper-right, are AR1301, AR1302, AR1305, AR1306, and AR1307. Telescope: Lunt Solar Systems LS60THa/B1200CPT Accessories: LS50FHa Double-stack etalon; TeleVue 2.5x Powermate Mount: Takahashi EM-200 Temma2 Camera: Imaging Source DMK31 Exposure: 1/154sec. Gain: 550 Length: 1:00 each Acquisition: IC Capture.AS (Uncompressed AVI) @ 30fps Processing: AVI Stack 2: align, stack Post-processing: ImagesPlus 4.0; Adobe Photoshop CS5; Carboni’s Tools Capture time: October 1, 2011, 10:17am - 10:23am CDST Capture conditions: 57.2°F - 60.4°F; transparency: Avg. 3/5; seeing: Avg. 3/5 Location: Hendersonville, TN, USA

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