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KMH

Beautiful results! There's lots of interest in that animation, even if it is relatively quiet.

Kevin

KMH

Great results, Brian. Those proms are really impressive!

Kevin

KMH

That second one looks really good!

Kevin

KMH

Those are both beautiful images. The narrow band Ca K is really interesting.

Kevin

KMH

Great catch!

Kevin

KMH

Great results!

Kevin

KMH · Re: Sun March 22, 2024 Great disks! Kevin

Great disks!

Kevin

KMH

Terrific images! The crossed filaments are quite interesting.

Kevin

KMH

Nice! I briefly imaged 3615 yesterday before clouds moved in, but nothing too dramatic happened.

Kevin

KMH

Beautiful disks - glad you caught that prom!

Kevin

KMH

Spectacular!

Kevin

KMH

Very nice - and good timing!

Kevin

KMH

Have you had above average temps and below average precipitation the past year or so? I am afraid that we could be in for a bad wildfire season if we don't get rain/snow melt to green things up. 2023 was bad out west, but even northern Ontario and Quebec had fires that filled the air with smoke. Fi...

KMH

Great results!

Kevin

KMH · Re: 19 March 2024 Beautiful results! Kevin

Beautiful results!

Kevin

KMH

Yeah - we had snow today too! In fact our local ski hill has had 35" since last Thursday. Fortunately not nearly as much down lower, where there's a fair amount of green starting to come up.

Kevin

KMH

Very nice! It's interesting how certain areas of the moon really stand out in Ha. In saturated "mineral moon" images those two bright craters (Stevinus I think?) are actually light blue or cyan in color.

Kevin

KMH · Re: Ha Session 18-03-2024 Beautiful images! Kevin

Beautiful images!

Kevin

KMH

Terrific images and details!

Kevin

KMH

That's a wonderful animation (and images) with great details!

Kevin

KMH · Re: Full Disc 18-03-2024 Very nice - great proms! Kevin

Very nice - great proms!

Kevin

KMH

Great FDs, and a really nice observatory complex!

Kevin

KMH

Could you please explain why on-band CaK results in soft images? The reversed granulation still peaks through, but with the hazy carpet of chromospheric features now sitting over the top the view is softer. Hope this make sense! Mark Mark - I had misinterpreted the original comment, but this makes ...

KMH

The scudding clouds and haze made pulling the proms harder with the full disk, and despite only being 40mm f15 the softness of the image is a result of being onband in CaK imaging higher in the lower chromosphere. Those are beautiful images. Could you please explain why on-band CaK results in soft ...

KMH

Beautiful animation and sunrise!

Kevin

KMH

Beautiful - and good luck with the syrup!

Kevin

KMH

Beautiful - that's a very dramatic filaprom!

Kevin

KMH

yltansg wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:07 am

Double-stacking is next after I have made some skybender improvements

Alfred

Alfred,

Did you have the Skybender printed yourself? If so, could you share where you got the drawings from?

Thanks!
Kevin

KMH · Re: 12 March 2024 Really nice! Kevin

Really nice!

Kevin

KMH

rsfoto wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:14 pm Hi,

Mechanical masterpiece as well as the images

Ditto!

Kevin

KMH · Re: 11 March 2024 Those are beautiful images! Kevin

Those are beautiful images!

Kevin

KMH

Great transit!

Kevin

KMH

That's a very nice comparison!

Is this the Alluxa filter you have?
https://alluxa.com/optical-filter-catal ... -bandpass/

Kevin

KMH

Great animation and beautiful images! I'm glad you caught much of the lift-off.

Kevin

KMH

Very nice! Do you have to worry about ash raining down on your equipment?

Kevin

KMH · Re: 6 March 2024 Beautiful! Kevin

Beautiful!

Kevin

KMH

Those are beautiful images - and a great looking scope!

Kevin

KMH

George,

Regarding the 10A Halpha image - I assume that without the occulting disk in place (for example - imaging with just a wedge) those loops would be totally washed out? What exposure did you use for this video?

Thanks!
Kevin

KMH

Those are beautiful results! Is your Lunt DS module external or internal? If internal, how do you like it (any problems with bright glow, which seems common)?

Kevin

KMH

Those are really amazing! The 10A Ha is quite interesting - do you by any chance have a comparison GONG image from the same time to compare with? I'm guessing from your comment above that those loops would not be seen in the GONG image??

Kevin

KMH

Very nice results, and an interesting comparison between wavelengths.

Kevin

KMH

Beautiful bird and pictures!

Kevin

KMH · Re: 5 March 2024 Very nice results - great proms! Kevin

Very nice results - great proms!

Kevin

KMH · Re: Sunspot progression 2/25 - 3/5/2024 Nicely done! Kevin

Nicely done!

Kevin

KMH

And also a full disk, taken with a Player One Saturn IMX533 at native focal length: Since this is somewhat undersampled I decided to try to use the 3x drizzle in AS3!. I confess I don't entirely understand drizzling, but it seemed to do a good job in this case. psraw1b_ai1_prime3_S_150456_022824_AS_...

KMH

Finally, an overlap of opportunity and clear skies! Transparency and seeing were average, with seeing deteriorating as the session went on. A very fun afternoon in the sun! Lunt 100 Tha Lunt BF heater (temp was in the low 40s F) Powermate 4x FLIR Grasshopper 3 with IMX174. Thanks for looking, Kevin ...

KMH

I think that's a pretty interesting question. Personally, I find that an inverted image looks much more 3D, so that it's generally easier to understand what's going on. But I've had people tell me the opposite. Interesting how different people's brains evidently process images in different ways. Kevin

KMH

Very nice! Good luck with the syrup production.

Kevin

KMH · Re: Solar prominence 03/03/24 Very cool capture! Kevin

Very cool capture!

Kevin

KMH

Those are beautiful images!

Kevin

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