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Sun's photosphere. From Catania 54 to Catania 58

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The new solar cycle 25 is becoming increasingly active. The big Catania 57 group, the central sunspot have about 5 earths of width.There are also some groups of faculaes around the disk that could turn into sunspots in near days.Tube: SkyWatcher ED 72/420 with a Baader Astrosolar OD 5.0 filter.Camera: Zwo ASI 224MCFilters: Zwo IR/UV cut and Baader Solar ContinuumMount: SkyWatcher Star Adventurer Mini over a Manfrotto 055 tripod.Barlow: Generic x3 on cropped sections.Acquisition: 3 videos of 30" stack on AutoStakkert and processed with Astro Surface OMEGA (deconvolution and wavelets) and Fitswork 4 (luminance extraction and false color).



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