Antilhue - Chile
Antilhue - Chile
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| Designation | Sun |
| Object type | Our star |
| Description | A normal day on the sun... the solar maximum has passed and only a few sunspots are seen in visual wavelengths. Granulation is obvious. A more promising sunspot group is rotating into view on the left. Featuring an apparent visible disk diameter of over 32 arcminutes, the sun was just a little too large to fit on the 10mm width of the CCD chip in this prime focus image. |
| Exposure | Ha 0.1 s @ -5°C, best-of-25 single exposure |
| Camera | SBIG ST-10XE + SBIG CFW-8 with Custom Scientific 3nm H-Alpha Filter |
| Optics | Astro-Physics AP155EDFS @ f/7.2 (prime focus) + Baader Astro-Solar film (visual) |
| Mount | Astro-Physics AP1200GTO |
| Software | MaxIm DL/CCD, Adobe Photoshop 6.0 |
| Location - Date - Time | San Esteban (Chile) - 02Feb2003 - 14:16 UTC |
| Conditions | Transparency 5, Seeing 5, Temperature +25 °C |
