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Solstice Sun

Ron Brecher — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:30:37 +0000

Solstice Sun, June 21, 2026 Click image for full size version June 21, 2026 It is the summer solstice. The longest day of the year. It was a beautiful day to capture another picture of the Sun with my Sky-Watcher Heliostar 76α H-alpha telescope and Player One Xena 585-M camera, all on a Sky-Watcher Wave [...]

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The Sun – June 19 2026

Ron Brecher — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:08:05 +0000

The Sun, June 19, 2026 Click image for full size version June 20, 2026 Here is another picture of the Sun made using a Sky-Watcher Heliostar 76α H-alpha telescope and a Player One Xena 585-M camera, all on a Sky-Watcher Wave 100i mount. I controlled the mount with a very old hand controller that I [...]

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The Sun – June 15 2026

Ron Brecher — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:53:05 +0000

The Sun, June 15, 2026 Click image for full size version June 16, 2026 Well, it's official. I think I enjoy solar imaging. The equipment and software available to amateurs makes it much easier than it used to be to get really high quality photos of the Sun. I am using a Sky-Watcher Heliostar 76α [...]

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The Sun, November 10, 2016

Ron Brecher — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 02:48:41 +0000

The Sun, Nov. 10, 2016 Click image for full size version November 10, 2016 During the first half of November, 2016, I had my equipment in the observatory down for maintenance, and was awaiting a new telescope. Naturally, there were many clear nights during this time! Since I couldn't easily capture deep sky objects, [...]

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The Sun, June 22, 2015

Ron Brecher — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 16:50:57 +0000

The Sun, June 22, 2015Click image for full size versionJune 22, 2015It was cloudy, windy and rained on and off last night. But when I got up this morning, the Sun was shining, the air was clear and steady and the sky was a beautiful blue. Today is the first full day of summer, so I [...]

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The Sun, March 20, 2015

Ron Brecher — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 20:35:18 +0000

The Sun, March 20, 2015 Click image for full size version March 22, 2015 After a long, brutally cold winter, Spring has FINALLY arrived. The first day of Spring, March 20, was warm (about 9C) and sunny, with not a cloud in the sky most of the day. After an aurora on March 17/18 I [...]

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The Sun, March 9 2015

Ron Brecher — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 16:54:26 +0000

The Sun, March 9, 2015 Click image for full size version March 21, 2015 I took this image of the sun a little after 3 pm EST March 9, 2015. There were reports of a very active region, which you can see to the lower right of the Sun's disk. A few days after this image was [...]

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Solar Eclipse, Oct. 23 2014

Ron Brecher — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 00:52:17 +0000

Solar Eclipse, Oct. 23 2014 Click image for full size version October 23, 2014 - SkyNews Photo of the Week October 24, 2014; Bulletin of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, November 2014 I got this image of the partial solar eclipse just before the sun set behind the trees. Notice the beautiful large prominences near [...]

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The Sun, October 12, 2014

Ron Brecher — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:19:13 +0000

The Sun, October 12, 2014 Click image for full size version October 12, 2014 I took this image of the sun around noon on October 12, 2014. It was a beautiful day in the middle of the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, so I was in a bit of a turkey haze while making this image! The grey patches on [...]

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Venus Transit

Ron Brecher — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 23:48:05 +0000

Venus Transit Transit of Venus, June 5 2012 Click image for full size version June 5, 2012 - SkyNews Magazine Photo of the Week, July 13, 2012; Published in SkyNews Magazine (Sept/Oct 2012) June 5th was my birthday! What better way to spend the day than preparing for and shooting the transit of Venus [...]

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