Solar on Oct. 2nd. Test new Apollo-M MAX (IMX432) cam

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Solar on Oct. 2nd. Test new Apollo-M MAX (IMX432) cam

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Two sunspotgroup on the Sun. Very beautiful. Whitel light images are taken with ES127CF APO
A big prominence on the edge.This is taken with 80mm Ha solar scope.
All thoes images was used with new Apollo-M MAX (IMX432) mono camera ( made by Player One Astronomy)
White light (full disk): Exp=0.42ms, Gain=0.
Sun20211002-0.jpg
Sun20211002-0.jpg (301.66 KiB) Viewed 580 times
White light with 5X barlow: Exp=2ms, Gain=151.
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Sun20211002-1.jpg (751.09 KiB) Viewed 580 times
Sun20211002-2.jpg
Sun20211002-2.jpg (354.92 KiB) Viewed 580 times
Only Prominence : Exp=35ms, Gain=148.
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Sun20211002-3.jpg (146.14 KiB) Viewed 580 times
Prominence and surface : Exp=5ms, Gain=148.
Sun20211002-4.jpg
Sun20211002-4.jpg (373.6 KiB) Viewed 580 times
Record 2000 frames, 30% stacked.
Apollo-M MAX (IMX432) mono camera has 100Ke full well, even on gain=148, still has 18.7Ke full well. this gives better exposure latitude in real imaging.
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Welcome, and great first post!


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A very warm and sunny welcome :hamster: :hamster: :hamster:
What an opening set of images, these are absolutely beautiful :bow :hamster:

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Welcome to the forum! Great images!


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Absolutely Great images and thanks for sharing.

welcome too.

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A warm welcome and you have some beautiful images there.

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Very nice shots! That camera looks like a winner for solar.

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Hi:
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Beautiful clean and crisp images.
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Great images! Always nice to see some results with the new camera. That looks promising!


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Welcome. Thank you for sharing your beautiful images.

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rigel123 wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 5:31 pm Welcome, and great first post!
Thanks a lot, Warren. I'm so happy that my first post has so many reply. :D


Telescope: ES127CF APO F7.5, LXY80APO F6
Mount: SW AZEQ6, iOption GEM45.
Camera: Player One Apollo-M MAX(IMX432), Apollo-M(IMX174), Apollo-M MINI(IMX429)
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Montana wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 5:58 pm A very warm and sunny welcome :hamster: :hamster: :hamster:
What an opening set of images, these are absolutely beautiful :bow :hamster:

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Hi Alexandra, many thanks. I learned from videos about solar color adjustment, still looking for some way to improve it.


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Camera: Player One Apollo-M MAX(IMX432), Apollo-M(IMX174), Apollo-M MINI(IMX429)
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marktownley wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:23 pm Welcome to the forum! Great images!
Many thank, marktownley. :D


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Camera: Player One Apollo-M MAX(IMX432), Apollo-M(IMX174), Apollo-M MINI(IMX429)
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EGRAY_OBSERVATORY wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:35 pm Absolutely Great images and thanks for sharing.

welcome too.

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MAURITS wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 8:26 pm Great images, welcome to the SolarChat forum.
Congrats on SPOD 👍
Thank you, Maurits. I can't believe that my first post could be SPOD!!


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DeepSolar64 wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 4:27 am WoW!, what a beautiful introduction! Welcome!!

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Telescope: ES127CF APO F7.5, LXY80APO F6
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Camera: Player One Apollo-M MAX(IMX432), Apollo-M(IMX174), Apollo-M MINI(IMX429)
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ffellah wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:32 am A warm welcome and you have some beautiful images there.

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Thank you so much, Franco.


Telescope: ES127CF APO F7.5, LXY80APO F6
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Camera: Player One Apollo-M MAX(IMX432), Apollo-M(IMX174), Apollo-M MINI(IMX429)
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rray6 wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:18 pm Very nice shots! That camera looks like a winner for solar.

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Thank you,Robert. I believe this cam will has a lot potential in solar imaging. First of all, in a lot of testing, this cam don't have banding issues.


Telescope: ES127CF APO F7.5, LXY80APO F6
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Camera: Player One Apollo-M MAX(IMX432), Apollo-M(IMX174), Apollo-M MINI(IMX429)
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eroel wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:32 pm Hi:
Welcome to this worldwide forum.
Beautiful clean and crisp images.
Best regards from México.
Eric.
Thank you, Eric. Yes, this camera don't have banding issue, I'm going to buy a Quark for imaging, I believe I will get more details with it. :D


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SassySun wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:47 pm Great images! Always nice to see some results with the new camera. That looks promising!
Thank you, SassySun. it's a new attempt in solar imaging.


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Carbon60 wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 6:04 am Welcome. Thank you for sharing your beautiful images.

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Thank you, Stu. It's my first time to post here, and I got a lot of greetings here.


Telescope: ES127CF APO F7.5, LXY80APO F6
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Camera: Player One Apollo-M MAX(IMX432), Apollo-M(IMX174), Apollo-M MINI(IMX429)
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