This is the sun featuring sunspot AR2833: This sunspot is actually sunspot AR2824 that has rotated around the far side of the sun, returned, and has been renamed. This is the same sunspot as...
Author: Erik
Webinar with Virtual Camera Club
I presented about Slooh.com along with a number of demos to the Virtual Camera Club, led by Gary Lintern. The presentation covered the major functions of Slooh.com, mission planning and booking, along with demos...
NGC 300
This is NGC 300, a spiral galaxy in Sculptor: This galaxy is estimated to be about 6.07 million light years from us. At the core of this galaxy is a binary system made up...
Barnard 252 – the Dolphin Nebula
This is the Dolphin Nebula, or Barnard 252: This dark nebula is actually covers the whole image, with the darkest part being the dolphin itself. The rest of this dark nebula gives the entire...
Using FITS Liberator with RGB FITS to create an RGB Image
While I have covered using FITS Liberator in another post, this post deals with using FITS Liberator with a FITS file that was taken using an OSC/RGB camera, and so all you have is...
NGC 6888 and surrounding region
This is the Crescent Nebula, or NGC 6888, and the surrounding region: NGC 6888 is usually presented on its own, but this widefield view highlights the large nebula in the surrounding region. This was...
Sun: AR2824 and AR2826
This is the sun as it appeared on May 26, 2021: There are two active regions in this image: AR2826 at the far right and AR2824 to the left of AR2826. On May 22,...
AR2822 and AR2823
This is the sun as it appeared on May 14 with two sunspots on the surface, AR 2822 (the upper sunspot) and AR 2823 (the lower one): These sunspots each produced a weak CME...
AR2818 and Companions
The sun is sporting several active regions: AR2818 is near the center; AR2820 to the right of center and AR 2816, which erupted and produced a CME on April 21, on the far right....
AR2816 Solar Flare and CME
This is the sun as it appeared on April 21, 2021: Sunspot AR 2816 is at the bottom, center of the image. This sunspot erupted on April 19, producing an M1 class solar flare,...
