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David Hoskin
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
10/03/2022
11:00 am

Equipment Details:

Celestron 102mm f/10 refractor, APM Herschel Wedge, ZWO ASI260MM camera with GSO 2.5x Barlow, SkyWatcher EQ6R mount.

Post-processing Details:

The best 5% of 2000 frames of video (Ser file) were stacked with AutoStakkert, wavelets adjusted with Registax, final adjustments and color added using Photoshop.

Image Details:

Sunspot group AR3112, which just rotated into view on the NE limb of the Sun, is huge and poses a risk for X-class solar flares.

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