Today's sun 20211009 in H-alpha

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Today's sun 20211009 in H-alpha

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Hi All,

I attempted imaging with my 60mm guidescope with a Quark chromosphere filter and ASI174mm.

Well it was cloudy, after my prolonged attempts at various focusing setups and Barlows/reducers, I had to settle on one without any reducers or barlows or tilt adaptors.I had Newton rings, so after hours of trial and error, I seemed to get 1 image which was ok. I think the clouds made the flat calibration difficult.

Here is my 3/4 of a sun:
14_52_52_lapl5_ap4342-ImPPG-Sig1.3UM1.3Am1.55.jpg
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My dropbox site has the fullsize.

(Colour version):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/86lnmhaaetru8 ... r.tif?dl=0
(Mono version)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/64tpa8qaz5ju1 ... s.tif?dl=0

Now I have to write down, what I did to process it all, it took some time.

All the best,

Magnus
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Post by EGRAY_OBSERVATORY »

Surprised you even got any Sun-views today in the London area Magnus, but well done on your efforts.

The surface detail has shown-up very well.

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Thanks Terry for your compliments.
It has taken me all almost 8 hours to get to this single image. Anyway, next time it will be easier !
London was cloudy, with short breaks of sun !

Magnus.


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Thanks Magnus.
I'm in Essex-land and was working outside and never say a glimmer of the Sun, but hey, another day...

Cheers
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Nice to see Magnus.


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Post by Montana »

That's a great image :bow :hamster: the mono seems a little dark but the colour is fine. It was sunny all day in Lyme Regis :) I think this is because I chose not to bring my PST :(

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Magnus, you have real patience!! And you were rewarded by a fine image.

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A good shot!


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