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Good news

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Excellent news

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Well the Sun certainly made its influence felt on Sunday night, even with the full Moon the Aurora was humming

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Nice little filaprom on the Sun today, not much else though

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Well done Alexandra and Michael

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Managed to get enough frames from between the clouds

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Heads up solar imaging peeps, if the Sun is up and there are no pesky clouds like here, GO IMAGE IT awesome coronal loops
The weather gods really didn't like me sneaking this image from between the clouds, being punished by freak hail storm

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Finally I caught it, the clouds actually played nice and parted just in time :) The Ha version didn't work out as well as the CaK, the frame rate was a bit slow for the magnification used. Lessons for next time ;) https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/497/32590417281_e343dfdd16_o.png https://c1.staticflickr...

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Most excellent, PGR cameras are awesome

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Some prominences and finally a sunspot, looks like there is something bigger following behind too

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Thanks Mark

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Well the clouds gave me 60 seconds of solar imaging today, that was very kind of them.

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Well the clouds decided to leave me alone and the Sun put on a good show to celebrate

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It took a little finding, its under Quick Links right at the top of the page under the CBSAP banner

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Well I missed all of the current AR except for the last little bit https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8757/28427121331_c4ded55dec_o.png https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8696/27889544323_192df3143b_o.png https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-z0EjhGO7hFc/V5RIepgPlrI/AAAAAAAAm04/c4Jk6vQm5fo6C_vBul1d6QHyLRLWhFC7QC...

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Finally the Sun managed to overcome the clouds :D Lunt LS80Tha/B18/DSII and Grasshopper 3 https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8653/28154345386_a18e260d93_o.png Z80 refractor with CaK module and Chameleon 3 https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8779/28188427185_c1168f21cf_o.png FLT132 refractor with Quark, 0.6x re...

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OMG

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Excellent images, pity the wifes a bit slack

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Torsten has modified the DLL's to allow FC to run in Mono mode instead of raw. Gamma will now work in FC 2.5 with a slight drop in FPS.
The DLL's can be downloaded here https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/firecapture/files

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For solar 20fps is plenty, if you do want to go faster a solid state drive will help a lot

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While the Grasshopper is on holiday in Canada (repairs) I splurged out on a 2nd Pt Grey camera. I went for a Chameleon3 (IMX264) 5mp mainly for doing that night time stuff but also the price. It does allow me to do fully disk solar now but does have those pesky newton rings that no amount of tilting...

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I have just got a Chameleon3 (IMX264) and have noticed the same thing. It will work in FlyCap2 if you change the video mode to mono instead of raw. Gamma works fine in Genika, I suspect FC is setting the mode to raw instead of mono. I have seen your post in the FC forum and have added what I know, h...

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I generally align them to NSO/GONG

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Looks like the Sun is putting on a little show for the transit

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You need a C-mount to 1.25" Nosepiece

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A few images from today. The Grasshopper 3 has developed and intermittent fault in the USB connector and is on its way back to Canada. I have gone back to the DMK41, an most capable camera but its no Grasshopper :D https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1619/26566324161_2bb01baebe_o.png https://farm2.static...

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I was hoping the weather gods would let me image these proms, they must of decided to be nice to me :D https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1668/25929535610_e25bc1cfa8_o.png https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1676/26136245651_2144cb7dca_o.png https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1664/26110502442_dd7d1c17c3_o.png

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Valery wrote:Hi Paul,

Very nice processing. Which deconvolution in the AstraImage have you used for this particular case?

Thanks,

Valery

Hi Valery,
I used Lucy Richardson, 10 iterations, 0.8 blur kernel size and 10 deconvolution strength

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Thanks Valery
Here's my processing, deconvolution with Astra Image and some shadow/highlights in PS

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A couple of images from a sunny Sunday

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I am a bit late to the party, but here is my attempt. Thanks for the excellent data Valery

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A bit of Sun for Sunday

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The pesky clouds cleared long enough to do some imaging, I wasn't disappointed

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Thanks Mark

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Hi all
I have a Lunt unmounted ERF that I am going to make a cell for, do I have to tilt the ERF?

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only managed 102 Ha suns this year due to clouds

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That would explain a few things

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I missed todays M flare but caught this activity about 8 hours later

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Hi Alexandra
I can't help with your camera issues but the dual window in FC can be fixed by going into setting, layout, tick use single window. It is much better with just one

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The weather gods let me have a brief imaging window today, the Sun didn't disappoint

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Managed to catch this between the clouds, taken over 14 minutes

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looks like something interesting as about to rotate into view

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A nice prom to finish off the day

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After a battle with the clouds I managed to snag a quick shot

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Thanks all,
David I used a double stacked LS80 with 2.5x powermate and Grasshopper 3 camera

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The interesting part of yesterdays Sun

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Great prom and no clouds, what are the odds

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Congratulations to Paolo Porcellana for winning the Sun section in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2015
(I don't know if Paolo is a member here or not)

http://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitio ... rs/our-sun

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Thanks everyone, of course I am back to clouds again

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