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Mercury Transit - November 2006
On the 9th November 2006 the planet Mercury transitted infront of the Sun. The event was visible from here in Perth, Western Australia. This gallery contains a few shots from the event.
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Sunspots
Some large sunspots (compared to lately) visible on the surface of the Sun.
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Sun: Full Disk
This is a simple, pleasing view of the full sun disk with some sunspot activity including sunspot 652. This is a composite of 4 seperate stacked images, all taken with the webcam.
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Sun: Large Sunspots
This large group of sunspots created significant flares and aurora activity in 2003.
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Sun: Large Sunspots - full disk
This is a full disk image showing the spectacular large sunspots 0487, 0488, 491, 0486 and 0495. These susnpots are shown close-up in other images of this gallery.
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Sun: Large Sunspots - closeup
The same group of sunspot as imaged elsewhere in this gallery, responsible for extreme solar and aurora activity during October/November 2003.
This image is nice in that it has good sunspot detail and also shows the edge of the sun, making a nice composure.
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Sun: Large Sunspots - closeup
The same group of sunspot as imaged elsewhere in this gallery, responsible for extreme solar and aurora activity during October/November 2003.
This image shows very fine detail within the sunspot group and some interesting colourisation which I can only assume is an artifact of the camera/imaging.
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Sun: Sunspot 652
Following the huge sunspots of October/November 2003 this is a nice follow-up. Nice detail visible in this image.
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Sun: Sunspot 652 - closeup
Another of sunspot 652, a more detailed view this time.
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Sun: HA Full Disk with surface
This image is a composite of two full disk images, one exposed for the flares and one for the surface detail. Each of those is a composite of digital images ot make up the full disk.
When photographing the sun in Hydrogen Alpha wavelength it becomes tricky to get both flare and surface detail, as the brightnessof the flares are significantly less than the surface.
This image was taken with the Hydrogen Alpha filter owned by the
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Sun: HA Closeup
This image shows 4 seperate views of the sun in hydrogen alpha (h-alpha). Some closeup views of solar flares and a full disk view.
This image was taken with the Hydrogen Alpha filter owned by the Astronomical Socity of Western Australia, thanks to them for the loan of this expensive filter.
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Sun: HA Full Disk
This image shows the full solar disk taken in h-alpha. Some nice flares are visible off the sides of the sun, one in particular in the top left. I believe the detail visible on the surface is a mixture of real solar detial and film grain.
This image was taken with the Hydrogen Alpha filter owned by the Astronomical Socity of Western Australia, thanks to them for the loan of this expensive filter.
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