A little Sun for a little Questar 20190422 + 23rd

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A little Sun for a little Questar 20190422 + 23rd

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A beautiful blue sky this morning enticed me outside for some solar imaging fun. Between the ease of a PST full disk and the image scale of the Quantum Six the small Questar has been ignored for months. Today it was put into action using a Baader ERF stopped down to 85mm, 2.5x Powermate, Quark Combo, focal reducer, and a PGR grasshopper.

Today's prom was an easy target to reacquaint myself with the scope.
Thanks for looking,

Phil
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Re: A little Sun for a little Questar 20190422

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High quality images from the Questar, Phil. The spicules are well resolved.

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Thanks, Franco. Seeing was good.

I forgot to mention.

This may be old news for the members here but I thought I'd mention a little about the processing of the first image. For mediocre images, I like to spend a minimum amount of time processing. IMPPG came in handy to substantially brighten the proms without resorting to inverting the disk yet allowing some control of the disk. No need to combine a disk and prom image. Only a slight blur at the transition between disk and proms. It does produce a super double limb.


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Very nice shot of the proms Phil...well done :bow

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Wow!!! incredible shots :bow I didn't realise there were so many other functions in ImPPG!

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Very nice capture Phil.


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Re: A little Sun for a little Questar 20190422 + 23rd

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Thanks for the comments, really!
Here are proms captured on the 23rd using the same equipment.

Phil

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Great additions, that lil Questar sure works well.


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A beautiful example that size is not everything.
And thanks for your IMPPG screenshot, interesting to see your settings.


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Super proms Phil!

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Re: A little Sun for a little Questar 20190422 + 23rd

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Beautiful additions :bow

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