Newly Acquired QHY5111462c Planetary Video Camera- First light.

 

Sunspot activity on the Solar photosphere 04:06:2023. 66mm ED Altair Astro Lightwave refractor and Baader Solar white light filter. QHY5111462c planetary camera all on Star Adventurer EQ mount. 

Annotated version of image above image. Information Credit: Soho Solar Observatory. Image Credit: Pip Stakkert.

 " All the astronomy team at the Jodrell Plank Observatory would like to thank our sponsor Anita Roberts for sanctioning the expenditure for the new high speed low light planetary video camera, which was used for the first time today, to produce these trial images of the Sun. We are all looking forward to using the new camera in concert with the 127mm Apo Refractor telescope for imaging  Jupiter and Saturn in the Autumn". - Kurt Thrust current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.

Detail crop showing cell granulation of the solar photosphere and sunspot groups 3321 and 3323