From: Ray Byrne <ray@in4media.co.uk>

Date: April 25, 2010 6:22:12 AM MDT

To: astro_iidc@yahoogroups.com

Subject: First Light 80mm PST

Hi Group,

I've just got a conversion kit to make my 80mm Apo into effectively an 80mm PST. I did my first imaging session with it yesterday and have uploaded 2 shots to the files section. The sky had milky thin cloud so no prominences I'm afraid although there is  a spikule to be seen in one of the shots. This particular shot has an active region which is what was the explosive prominence that was seen last week I think. The other shot has another active region just coming into view on the Solar limb.

These images are a bit wooly but I'm sure this is down to the poor transparency I also need to experiment with processing as this is a different subject than normal any input from Alan would be appreciated.

ATB

Ray