Waiting on the Sun
I am all set up to do some solar imaging but I am now waiting for the sun to clear the trees. This time of year, the sun travels very low across the sky so I only have a relatively short window of opportunity to observe or view the sun. I plan to start with some white light observing and imaging of the sun's photosphere. My solar wedge solar filter includes a Continuum filter as well as the usual IR/UV Cut, Neutral Density and Polarizing filters which has always worked fairly well for me. I've observed and imaged this way before so there is nothing new with this configuration. I plan to do something new today too though. I now have a narrowband 3nm Calcium K filter inside a different solar wedge filter that I have yet to try so that will be part of today's plan. This should produce nicer results. The one "different" thing about this filter is that this Calcium K filter is not an observing filter. Actually, my eyes should see nothing through this filter.