Helium D3 07/04/23

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Helium D3 07/04/23

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My very first attempt at the Helium D3 line using the 72ED and Sol'Ex SHG. Using Valerie Desnoux INTI free line routine to reconstruct the image I then used Photoshop CS2 to flip/rotate to correct orientation and try to remove some of the noise.

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Lunt 50THa solar scope
Lunt CaK B12 module
SW Evostar 72ED for full disk imaging
Sol'Ex SHG
80mm f/7 achromat used with pressure tune module off the Lunt with Lunt 100mm ERF
Bresser 90 f/10 achromat used for CaK & white light imaging & PST mod with Lunt 100mm ERF
Coronado SM40 (pre Meade) and BF10 filter set + SMII 60 richview DS etalon
Skywatcher EQ6 Pro and Ioptron CEM60
Then there is all the night kit which is far too long a list to write up here! :lol:
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Re: Helium D3 07/04/23

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Very nice indeed :bow do you know what is causing the horizontal lines?

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Re: Helium D3 07/04/23

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Thank you Alexandra. I think these lines are artifacts left after the subtraction of the continuum image,I played around with the Polynomial settings in INTI and these lines would change position but then the contrast in the image would drop as the shift would pull it off band. Need to do more Helium D3 imaging to learn more about using INTI free line and its proper settings.

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Lunt 50THa solar scope
Lunt CaK B12 module
SW Evostar 72ED for full disk imaging
Sol'Ex SHG
80mm f/7 achromat used with pressure tune module off the Lunt with Lunt 100mm ERF
Bresser 90 f/10 achromat used for CaK & white light imaging & PST mod with Lunt 100mm ERF
Coronado SM40 (pre Meade) and BF10 filter set + SMII 60 richview DS etalon
Skywatcher EQ6 Pro and Ioptron CEM60
Then there is all the night kit which is far too long a list to write up here! :lol:
More images on view on my Flickr page...https://www.flickr.com/photos/alun_h/
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Re: Helium D3 07/04/23

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very nice
can you write up steps to do this with link to needed SW?


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Re: Helium D3 07/04/23

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plz with strawberries and sugar on top!


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Re: Helium D3 07/04/23

Post by Alun_H »

Thank you John.

INTI software and PDF download giving complete instructions on Helium D3 http://valerie.desnoux.free.fr/inti/ http://valerie.desnoux.free.fr/inti/INT ... mD3_EN.pdf

Alun


Lunt 50THa solar scope
Lunt CaK B12 module
SW Evostar 72ED for full disk imaging
Sol'Ex SHG
80mm f/7 achromat used with pressure tune module off the Lunt with Lunt 100mm ERF
Bresser 90 f/10 achromat used for CaK & white light imaging & PST mod with Lunt 100mm ERF
Coronado SM40 (pre Meade) and BF10 filter set + SMII 60 richview DS etalon
Skywatcher EQ6 Pro and Ioptron CEM60
Then there is all the night kit which is far too long a list to write up here! :lol:
More images on view on my Flickr page...https://www.flickr.com/photos/alun_h/
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