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My ten seconds of eclipse

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Hi all

Despite a good weather forecast I was almost clouded out, Met Office got that wrong :(
I did get several views through the old Zeiss in white light very pleasing, I am trapped in now due to house building since I built my observatory sixteen years ago so to see any sort of solar eclipse from the observatory is something special :)
I must have got about two minuets of visible eclipse through moving thin clouds out of the whole two hours but I captured several ten second videos of which Autostakket could only stack one due to the moving cloud, I am pleased though as for the last week the weather forecast was for heavy cloud.

This was taken through the Daystar SS60-DS with a ZWO ASI174MM, piggy baked in the Zeiss, the Daystar was stopped down to 30mm giving me a focal ratio of f32.6, this gives the best image with the Quark unit.
Stacked in Autostakket, Sharpened in ImPPG, and contrast/colour added in Ps6.
The best I could get then had to carry on to work before processing.

Hope you like Rod.
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Well done!!!! that is a real beauty :hamster: :hamster: :bow

I was praying for one blue hole but it never came, what luck you had :bow
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Beautiful!!


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A very nice image Rod.


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Nicely done, Rod.

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Very nice shot Rod :bow

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Excellent capture Rod.

Thanks for sharing
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That's a great shot, Rod. Nice work.


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Thanks everyone nice to get some feedback.

If it wasn't for the eclipse I would never have found the little Daystar SS60-DS could do full disk images that were any good.
I actually spent some time with it over the past week or so trying different configurations until I got some good images, so that has been a result and worth doing.
Main thing was to find an area of the etalon where it was reasonably on band across the whole disk.
Also stopping down to 30mm makes a massive difference, don't know why daystar stuck a 60mm f4 lens on this thing. :?

Normally I just use the quark part on other scopes for high res work.

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Great image Rod


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Superb! :bow


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Great name and great result.

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Excellent use of ten seconds, Rod. Excellent image as well.

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Like it, kind of shot I'd liked to take .


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Thanks Pedro, Rusted, Ivan, Phil and Daniel

I did a little more sharpening, always wary of going to far to start with, easy to make it look dramatic but unreal and add sharpening artefacts, I think this is better though.
I still prefer the B&W one though I seem to be able to see more detail.

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