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nothing on the sun is sharp and there are no sharp edges.
We get people like McCarthy show up every couple years and then just keep pushing it further and further for more social media attention until they get caught doing something really stupid and fake.
Anyway, to each his own.

me too

I use topaz denoise for all of my wildlife photography and have found nothing that comes even close to the same quality. I have photo AI, Denoise, sharpen, and every other product they sell and I have found that they do not work as well on monochrome solar images as RGB 12-16 bit images. As far as u...

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Hey ya'll. :) Had some extra wood from a project so I made myself a solar imaging station for the marsh property. I'm no carpenter but Ido know my math. :) These are images of our nearest star taken today from the Georgia coastal marsh using a custom made, externally doublestacked Lunt LS100mm with ...

Hi everyone. Reading this post I am reminded of other forums where people “have to be right” about everything and it devolves into an argument about some issue rather than a friendly exchange of ideas and information. This gentleman has an exciting new product idea and is attempting to ask for input...

thank you for that post Maurits.
I’ve been feeling very irrelevant and a little use or value lately. Your appreciation of my years of work and expense on this forum gave me a great lift of the spirits.

Thank you for those stories, friends. For me, as a child in the 60s we would visit my grandparents house in Palm Bay Florida, just a few miles from Cape Canaveral, every summer. My grandfather was a retired Army Master Sergeant who served in England during World War II and in Germany for the reconst...

This donation whittles down my telescope inventory to just one set for the Atlanta home and one set for the Marsh House. Since I gave away all the h alpha scopes except for my two original and irreplaceable Coronado 90s, I was able to get them out and clean them up for mounting on my Atlanta set up....

I changed out all the pressure tuning seals and put new grease on them as well as replacing the glass in the blocking filter before I shipped it so they would not have any problems. I also included extra blocking filter glass and extra rubber O-rings. I really hope it gets there in one piece. For th...

last time I was in Kosovo, CBSAP Director there, Pranvera Hyseni, and I met at length with the president of the country and his minister of education to try and get the ball rolling on a public observatory in their country. A lot of you follow our Facebook page and already know how this has come to ...

I have to travel this weekend and will not be able to host the meeting but Alexandra is trying to arrange for another host. Please check back on this topic for the correct hosting information which will be posted soon. Alexandra's Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/94658584402 Meeting ID: 946 5858 ...

One of our longtime affiliates of the Charlie Bates solar astronomy project is in Popayan, Colombia. Peter takes his gear all over the countryside and through the jungles to spread the science of the sun and astronomy in general with native populations. Last week he went to a remote jungle village a...

Nic, It took me a day or two to respond to that because it was just so very kind of you to say those things. I will admit I have been feeling sort of non-relevant for a good while now as the technology in the hobby has passed me by. There was a time when I was “the man”, for sure, but listening to P...

Hey everyone, I’m the guy that owns the forum and tries to keep it running. Just a little history for new members that have no idea what this group is about. In 2008 I founded what has become the world’s largest solar astronomy and sunlight in nature nonprofit, named in memoriam to a fellow veteran,...

after doing some research and talking with various people, it seems that the whole ChatGPT generated nonsense is just a new twist on the “lost dog” posts on Facebook where a nefarious individual puts up some heart wrenching post about finding a lost dog in a sales group and then goes back after the ...

We had to purge the cache and logout all users this morning after a report from one of our vigilant legitimate users (thank you) of an account (Pranav) that was for some reason posting quoted replies generated by ChatGPT. I’m sorry if anyone was in the middle of a large post and got logged out but h...

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btw, I use mine in an LS152 as well and the entire disk fits on the sensor

I will also add, as the Director of this nonprofit, that Player One Astronomy supports various outreach endeavors while ZWO does not have any interest in it.
The Apollo M Max is the official camera of the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project and therefore the Solarchat forum as well.

same camera. the Pro has a cooler on it.
I use it without the cooler for Solar at 34° north latitude and it works perfectly.

WilcoS , you should be good now. you have to await moderator approval on the first message so we can make sure you are not a scammer.

I love the graphic showing the layers of the atmosphere

a Zoom accojnt is necessary to sign in because otherwise it would be full of hackers. No payment is needed. Also, there were a couple of Russian names that I did mot recognize and I did jot allow them in because they also had no video. Tjis is exactly what the hackers look like. Turn on the “join wi...

Great big thanks to the British Astronomical Association (BAA) for renewing their yearly sponsorship of the Solarchat forum!

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I have about 900 TB more if you want it.

excellent! the uneven illumination is from blocking filter irregularities.

I thought it might be fun for someone to practice processing these H alpha file sets that I took today. Here is a dropbox link to the RAW avi files if anyone would like to process them for practice. I would love to see someone blow me away with their skills. Let's see what ya got! https://www.dropbo...

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these are blocking filter anomalies. its always the blocking filter. I would strongly advise against any tweaking of the etalon housing or internal optics in the scope. The blocking filter diagonal and glass is adjusted at the factory but it is not designed to be adjusted by the end user. It is held...

What Mark said .

technically close to perfection and just the way I like'em... monochrome with "just the facts, ma'am"

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I’m guessing everyone has seen the absolute abomination that was published as an APOD today on the NASA APOD website. This is yet another in a long line of amateurish fakes with no scientific value that have been put out by that silly website as being the epitome of astrophotography, etc. They are r...

We finished up with an extra 2 donations today for a total of $18,902. We had 160 donations (27 from Solarchat and 133 from Facebook only folks) and an average of $113.50. I am drawing for the prizes now and will announce them on Facebook and then hear. Although we did not make the goal, we did a re...

my wife kicked in $3000…:)

Well, we finished out the fundraiser a little ahort of the goal but thank you Mike Maurer, John R. Nagle and all the incredible people who supported Solar Astronomy and Sunlight in Nature outreach in this years’ Fall fundraiser! www.paypal.me/cbsap We will have our prize drawing this afternoon. Than...

LAST DAY TO MAKE OUR GOAL!! Thanks Ginie Abney Anthony, and Geoffrey Harris! for the very generous donations to the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project /Sunlit Earth! fall fundraiser!! www.paypal.me/cbsap to help us teach more science and nature and maybe win a cool prize! you can donate without a...

Thanks Lisa Frederick Crawford, Tammy Poulnott and William Caldwell for your generous donations to the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project/Sunlit Earth Fall fundraiser one more day to reach our goal and award the prizes! support science education at www.paypal.me/cbsap IMG_3454.jpeg IMG_3415.jpeg

NASA SDO has all the equipment you could ever need already setup and free to use over the internet. Extreme UV isn’t visible from inside the Earth’s atmosphere.

Thanks Buddy Harrell, Sharon Leslie and Melanie Edwards Furr for your generous contributions to our Fall fundraiser!
We are slowly inching our way to the goal and would appreciate your support.
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The annular eclipse is in the books and the total eclipse is coming up on April 8th! www.paypal.me/cbsap to supportnour refustered nonprofit 501c3 We are doing our Fall fundraiser right now and invite you to support the worlds largest solar astronomy nonprofit and educational internet forum. We star...

it was completely overcast here on the coast until about eight minutes before the end of the eclipse. Then I got a 30 to 40 second thinner patch of clouds where I could see the Sun. Thankfully, I was ready with just my unfiltered birdwatching camera to get this one cloudy shot. neither of my two rea...

:seesaw Okay, one donation yesterday and thank you. Let’s see if we can at least double that today. 🙂 The Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project/Sunlit Earth Fall fundraiser is going on through October. We are a real nonprofit 501c3 in Atlanta, GA USA. We are not a gofundme page or any of that sketch...

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It is October 9th. The fundraiser goal is 20k US and it ends on October 31st.

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