The Sun Images by Etienne Lecoq

Blogged by Xiao Sun on June 15, 2010 and tagged with Sample Images, Mosaic, Sun.

During the recent surge of the solar images, many of them were photographed with the 1/2″ CCD, or DMK 41 lines, astronomy cameras. French amateur astronomer Etienne Lecoq, for instance, equiped himself with a DMK 41AU02.AS astronomy camera and took the following pictures approximately two weeks ago.

The Sun

Sunspot

His e-mail is translated as below:

First image, the Sun in Calcium filter, is a mosaic of two pictures taken with my Lunette A & M, 80 ED and DMK 41AU02.AS. The Lunt Calcium filter is centered on the Cak 2.4 A. [...] All colored with Paint Shop Pro.

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