Making slow progress
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Making slow progress
I have tried this about six times now, and after getting some great advice from forum members, I see some improvement. I am still disappointed with the results compared to others on this forum, however. Specifically, using cameras with lower resolution than the one I am using, others seem to be getting much more detail than I am getting. And where the proms of others are feathery and delicate, in my images they look like they're built from Leggo blocks. Anyway, I'll keep trying. Here is my best effort from yesterday as example, plus a shot of the high clouds I was shooting through. BTW, I am using a Lunt LS100 DS, and a 6mp PGR Grasshopper3.
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Re: Making slow progress
Great result.It all comes down to practice with ones own set up and a day of above average conditions.To start with Mark Townleys processing tutorials are probably the easiest to follow and give very good results .
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Thanks to all for the encouragement. I have watched many of Mark Townley's tutorials and at first applied them all to my images. I now realize that each serves a purpose, but applying them all was just torturing the reality out of my efforts. I am till striving for the delicate details i see in the work of Alan Friedman. (oh, the hubris of Icarus) For longtech, El Dorado is east of Sacramento, CA. It's about halfway between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe where the gold rush of 1849 started.
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Re: Making slow progress
A very accomplished astrophotographer, Ken Crawford is in your area...he's captured some incredibly delicate proms...amazingly he did it with a 60mm Coronado SS...here's the link to his solar images (a very small part of his work) as well as links to his tutorials: http://www.imagingdeepsky.com/Solar/Solar_System.html
He's super nice and generous with his time. In fact he really helped me out when I was getting started...very patiently answered a million questions
He's super nice and generous with his time. In fact he really helped me out when I was getting started...very patiently answered a million questions
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Re: Making slow progress
I think it is a fabulous image
What is the pixel size of your Grasshopper? does it match the focal length you are using? (under sampling / over sampling) if not then you need to optimise it to get the best details.
Alexandra
What is the pixel size of your Grasshopper? does it match the focal length you are using? (under sampling / over sampling) if not then you need to optimise it to get the best details.
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Re: Making slow progress
Nice shots!
I'm guessing, looking at your full disk, there are possibly a couple of things going on that are affecting visibility of the proms; firstly are you running on lower than neutral gamma values? Secondly looks to me like the black level has been raised in post processing.
Maybe post an unprocessed (just stacked, no wavelets, etc) image? that will give us a better indicator how to advise for you to get more prom detail.
I'm guessing, looking at your full disk, there are possibly a couple of things going on that are affecting visibility of the proms; firstly are you running on lower than neutral gamma values? Secondly looks to me like the black level has been raised in post processing.
Maybe post an unprocessed (just stacked, no wavelets, etc) image? that will give us a better indicator how to advise for you to get more prom detail.
http://brierleyhillsolar.blogspot.co.uk/
Solar images, a collection of all the most up to date live solar data on the web, imaging & processing tutorials - please take a look!
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Re: Making slow progress
Hi Randall,
Nice FD, keep working on it with different settings and pp. You will find many ways to improve the image.
Alfred
Nice FD, keep working on it with different settings and pp. You will find many ways to improve the image.
Alfred