Dec 3 2021 - Excellent Seeing Conditions

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Dec 3 2021 - Excellent Seeing Conditions

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Had 5/5 seeing this morning so i went crazy with White Light. The HA stuff wasnt as good since I was more hyped by shooting the photosphere!
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Great images, congrats


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Re: Dec 3 2021 - Excellent Seeing Conditions

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I knew these were going to be good, but…wow. A great set of images, Simon.

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Excellent Simon!


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I am utterly impressed, again...

What scope did you use on the photosphere?

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EvoStar 150 and the Lunt Solar Wedge with a Solar Continuum Filter + UV/IR Cut filter.

I did some with the 5x and the other with a 5x & 2x combined. Doesnt always work but sometimes i get nice results.
DeepSolar64 wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 6:01 am I am utterly impressed, again...

What scope did you use on the photosphere?

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Congratulations on some stunning images! :bow


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Lucky you Simon for having some excellent seeing conditions and thanks for the excellent captures

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Simon2940 wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 8:04 am EvoStar 150 and the Lunt Solar Wedge with a Solar Continuum Filter + UV/IR Cut filter.

I did some with the 5x and the other with a 5x & 2x combined. Doesnt always work but sometimes i get nice results.
DeepSolar64 wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 6:01 am I am utterly impressed, again...

What scope did you use on the photosphere?

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Excellent set of images. Which camera did you use for photosphere? These images show what is possible with 6” scope


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The EvoStar 150 works very well and resolves the granules without effort!

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Incredible details of the images, very amazing !!!


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Awesome images Simon :bow

The WL images are perfect, and the Ha are very good too!

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Simon:
Super images, incredible W/L granulation.
Thanks for sharing them.
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torsinadoc wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:24 pm
Simon2940 wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 8:04 am EvoStar 150 and the Lunt Solar Wedge with a Solar Continuum Filter + UV/IR Cut filter.

I did some with the 5x and the other with a 5x & 2x combined. Doesnt always work but sometimes i get nice results.
DeepSolar64 wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 6:01 am I am utterly impressed, again...

What scope did you use on the photosphere?

James

Excellent set of images. Which camera did you use for photosphere? These images show what is possible with 6” scope


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Remarkable images Simon, nicely done!


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Excellent Simon !
If you have a deep sky OIII filter (Astronomik, Baader, etc.), you can also try with it. You will get some more resolution.


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Absolutely wonderful :bow :hamster: these WL images have stolen my heart

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Amazing details and beautiful color, those are the best solar images I have ever seen!!


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AMAZING Simon!!!!
You were ready at the right moment and got fantastic shots!
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Amazingly beautiful pictures at WL, Simon. Thanks.

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Great images, Simon.

What processing are you using to add color.

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Curves adjustment in Photoshop. It works the best but does require a lot of experimenting which doesnt always pan out.

Jordan Konisky wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 10:42 pm Great images, Simon.

What processing are you using to add color.

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christian viladrich wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:23 pm Excellent Simon !
If you have a deep sky OIII filter (Astronomik, Baader, etc.), you can also try with it. You will get some more resolution.
Christian makes a very good point Simon. Your images are quite clearly limited by aperture, not seeing. Certainly with the x5+x2 shots you could try a blue filter in place of the continuum, you will still get the same image scale but there will be more resolution. Something like this:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Baader-1-25- ... OCEALw_wcB

You will still need to use the UV/IR filter though.


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Excellent Simon, congrats on SPOD 👍


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Might have to experiment with all that, be interesting to see what happens
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christian viladrich wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:23 pm Excellent Simon !
If you have a deep sky OIII filter (Astronomik, Baader, etc.), you can also try with it. You will get some more resolution.
Christian makes a very good point Simon. Your images are quite clearly limited by aperture, not seeing. Certainly with the x5+x2 shots you could try a blue filter in place of the continuum, you will still get the same image scale but there will be more resolution. Something like this:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Baader-1-25- ... OCEALw_wcB

You will still need to use the UV/IR filter though.


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Very impressive collection of images, Simon!

Congratulations on a well deserved SPOD!

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