🚀 astromecanik 🪐🇵🇷 @astromecanik@qoto.org

Currently #imaging remotely from my #observatory and #gaming while the camera is snapping away! It going to be a long night as long as the clouds don’t crash the party.

Well, this thread got longer than I thought! I'm finishing lol! Back to white light imaging, even if not as visually impressive as Ha observing, there's a lot to see in the 🌞 #photosphere! Sunspots are very intricate and interesting phenomena, and many features can be observed within them:

When we observe the sun under Ha filtering, we are able to see the sun's #chromosphere and its #prominences. The chromosphere is a gaseous layer, mainly hydrogen, which lays above the #photosphere. The high temperatures at that layer causes the hydrogen to glow red at that wavelength, hence the Ha name. Also, you could be able to see a #prominence, which is an eruption-like event of solar material thrown out into space!

Ah, another #introduction topic I forgot, I like watching #F1 races since around 2019. This current season is going to be very interesting with #Ferrari and #Redbull battling it out and #MercedesAMG being oddly left behind.

What I like the most about it is the #engineering aspect of the cars, on how minute differences in #aerodynamics and the #suspension can be the difference between attaining that extra speed around a corner or being able to brake a instant later and not losing control.

Trying to setup my #telescope with new-to-me #astrophotography camera. Since I use what’s called an #equatorial mount, I need to align it properly with the sky’s North Pole in order to do long exposures without drifting. That, and a smaller camera and scope called together an #autoguiding system, allow me to keep an object centered in the field of view for long periods of time.

Observing the moon at night. Area is very illuminated, but you don’t need to be dark adapted to watch the #moon. #telescope #astronomy #universe #space

Finally, when imaged at a different wavelength, sunspots ("Active Regions") can be observed in the #photosphere, which is another layer in the sun's surface. The telescope shown was the one used to take the image.

Here's a closer look at a big #solar #prominence that showed up this morning. These events are relatively short lived, and disappear/shift out of view after a few hours...

This morning's sun imaged from my home in #PuertoRico. This was done using a specialized #solar #telescope.