Nice prom shots Eric.

I admire your get up and go attitude and especially your images Mark. Excellent FDs.

Alexandra, I love that black and white close up of 2740. That is one tangled knot. I have experienced similar mysteries with the stacking software. I for one rely on its 90% foolproof defaults but struggle when a sequence presents challenges because I haven't acquired sufficient cause and effect ins...

Great set Mark. I especially like the white light. Terrific resolution.

Awesome set Stu!

Good shots Marty. Clouded out here.

Superb images David.

I love that scope Phil! Beautiful work.

Nice shots Brian.

Exquisite detail Christian.

Very nice shots. 2741 is looking to be on a par with 2740. Good for us!

Very nice disk. I'm even noticing some spicule details on the limb.

Yes, the neverending battle against dust motes...exacerbated by spring pollen and shedding trees. Perhaps they make an "autoblower" for such purposes :cool: The Trigger Threshold was 1.6 and the Discard Threshold was 2.4. I try to strike a balance on these settings based on the prevailing conditions...

Beautiful work Franco. The 3D sense is amazing. Congrats on the SPOD my friend.

Thank you for the comments everybody. :bow2 It is very encouraging :D Alexandra, I agree and when I saw that phenomena early on in reviewing the frames I couldn't wait to see how it was revealed in the final sequence. :o I felt like I had found the sweet spot exposure wise to be able to bring out th...

Thanks Eric!

Very nice shot Bruce. Let us know how you make out with Genika/SSM. There are options.

These are so great. Really enjoying them Paul.

Finished processing an animation from Sunday May 5th. I love doing these and it was so nice to have a confluence of time, weather and and interesting target (AR2740). This is 26 frames of 150/500 stacks captured between 13:36 and 14:57 EDT using a Lunt LS100THa/B1800, 5x PowerMate, and a PGR Grassho...

This is a great first animation. I also use Firecapture with SSM and it works very well using the plug in developed by PDB (user on SolarChat).

Very impressive animation Paul!

Thanks to all who chimed in. It has cleared some things up for me (excuse the pun :P ). I can see how they benefit the image through narrowing the wavelength the camera is recording. Seems that this results in better contrast and structural details. No one indicated that they found the extra data us...

Hi Mark, Thanks for responding. So it sounds like your usage is strictly for managing thermal energy. I think I understand those considerations. I'm also wondering about the impact on data collected during imaging and how that might affect the image quality (for better or worse). The PGR implementat...

When solar photographers specify their hydrogen-alpha light path I often see a UV/IR blocking filter listed and I'm curious to know what specific benefits are derived particularly as it relates to the quality of the image (heat energy management considerations aside). Is there a placement requiremen...

Very nice details David.