June 6th
Finally, some action this month, even though it wasn't that great!
I bin scanned the Sun through moving cloud at 09:55 GMT but didn't see
any sunspots.
It cleared a bit more by 22:20 GMT, so I managed a snap of the Moon
with the Startravel, even though it was quite low. The first shows some
surface detail and the second the earthshine.
Jun 7th
With the adjustment for GMT, I wasn't sure whether it was "today"
or still "yesterday" but I went out at 23:10 GMT to find there was still
some cloud about. Saturn had disappeared behind a bank of cloud but Melotte
111 was still high enough to show well. However, M3 was barely visible
and M13 hardly impressed, so it was hardly a night to track down faint
Messier objects. I tried for M51 but failed. I potted the usual summer double
stars, Alberio being the most notable. Melotte 20 showed, despite being
low and there was a hint of the Perseus Double Cluster. To finish off,
Jupiter was very low in the south east and I could just make out one of
its moons.
I checked the Sun with the PST. Although there were no sunspots, there
was a lot of prominence activity:
At 21:55 GMT, I did a scene shot, showing the Moon, Mars, Saturn and
Regulus and it didn't even need any post-processing.
I came out at 22:00 and did some lunar snaps.
Unfortunately, the close-ups showed no more detail than the whole disc
shot.
June 8th
I did a hydrogen alpha shoot at 10:00 GMT.
I did another one at 16:00 GMT.
I took a quick shot of the Moon at 21:00 GMT.
June 9th
I revisited some of the images from the day before and came up with these
taken at 10:00 GMT.
I did a photo shoot of the Moon at 20:20.
June 10th
Did a PST shoot at 06:50 GMT and saw good prominence detail.
June 11th
It was cloudy in the morning, so I revisited some snaps from the day before.
I then revisited June 8th:
June 29th
After a long lay-off with back trouble, I bin scanned the Sun at 14:30 GMT
but didn't see any sunspots.
June 30th
Bin scanned the Sun at 12:10 GMT but didn't see any sunspots.
