In white light, I'd have to agree with you, Deloy. Looks like solar minimum today. But in H-a, there is a goodly amount of prominence action around 2/3 of the solar circumference, including one prominence with a detached, arch-like segment that almost parallels the solar limb. Also a bit of surface detail, although it takes a bit of tuning to bring it into view. The PST loves old-style, narrow-field eyepieces. Kellners and orthos excell with the narrow FOV inherent to the PST itself. Makes using it much easier than with more modern, wide FOV eyepieces. Remember that as the angle of the light cone increases (wider FOV eyepieces), the wider the required tuning band becomes. More "fiddling". As you move around the limb, don't be afraid to tweak the tuning ring. Features will pop into view that weren't visible when the other side of the sun was tuned-in in a different part of the field. The same goes for detail on the disk itself rather than the limb. Another day in the life of a G2V yellow dwarf. Shine on, brother, shine on. On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:02 PM, D P Pierce <starsbirdsglyphs@gmail.com>wrote:
It's pretty boring up there.