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You've been lucky to get the sun! Good shot!

Oh wow! These are amazing!

Absolutely fantastic shots there Valery! I think one of the key things with CaK is to get the aperture right for the seeing, and when it is right less is more, as these images show.

Finally put together the timelapse for this event...

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very good!

These are stunners Valery! Number 1 is superb!

Shheeeesshhh! It's huge Pedro!

Great additions!

Good shots!

Holy cow! That's up close!

Excellent shots JP!

No info at this stage, if I hear any I will post it.

Fantastic! I wish my skies were like that, at the moment they're just grey and have been for sometime.

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Ahh yes, forgot about the Baader one, thanks for that link. Hopefully the Daystar version will be a bit more affordable...

Good stuff! I thought you must be to be getting the results you are. Keep us updated

Good to hear there's a resolution

No, unfortunately no indication on when...

I was talking to Jen on the Daystar facebook page and she tells me Daystar are in the process of a designing a spherical aberration corrected 0.5x focal reducer for Ha use. Could be interesting!

Great shot, you were lucky to see the sun, just rain and drizzle here...

A blast from the past! The sun has just disappeared now here in Brierley Hills, just autumnal grey skies and rain... Any snows yet in Appenzellerland?

Excellent outreach! Good stuff Michael.

That works well! I've not seen the sun in ages now...

Similar, but definitely not the same. Double stacking has higher contrast in the mid range in the histogram due to cutting photospheric leakage in the Ha wings. Using lower gamma values gets this increase in contrast but with the offset that it causes compression in the shadows and highlights of the...

let us know how you get on...

Interesting comparison. IMHO the wavelets are sharpened at much too large a radius and looks unnatural, the LR works much better because is at a smaller radius. The LR and USM version is again over egged IMHO.

Fantastic! I shall be donating soon

Hope everyone else on here can contribute to it too...

You should look at the diameter of the exit beam - will you be able utilise the full 40mm aperture of that sm40? or if you can't then you are using less of the aperture of the sm40 and its central obstruction will start to be a higher % obstruction relatively. Also, can you get a 40mm f7 lens 280mm ...

In this thread I'll chronicle the progress of my Lunt LS35 mod(s). As with Omega Optical filters, for now I'm using my Bresser Messier R102 achromat (102/1000 mm) with a front-mounted Baader 90 mm D-ERF. The mod is non-destructive, as the whole Lunt 35 front etalon assembly (+its ERF) simply goes i...

It's an IR leak. I would use the Ha filter then, it will work fine with this.

If you have an nighttime Ha filter screw this on the end of the BF, alternatively use a uv/ir cut filter in addition.

You may well find the DS filter is tuned high of 656nm and so when you tilt it to get it down it will have banding - worth a try though...

Good stuff! I'm going to try my best and get over to Germany for this with you...

Top stuff boss!

The balance is going the wrong way Richard!

Oh dear, it's going the wrong way Richard!

Very nice disks George!

Lovely suns Matt! Glad you got the eclipse too...

You're getting some sun Steve in this cr@ppy weather... Good result fella!

Great animations guys!

Excellent details there Luke!

Excellent indeed!

These are excellent images!

great ani Theo! variable frame rate, an interesting idea, i've played around with tweening a bit in the past, i will have to explore it somemore me thinks...

Interesting thread (and great shots!) - did you have different gamma values for double stack and single stack on the camera?

Good job! You're using up that bag of Walters solar coins very quickly!

Re: Sun in White light 7-10-2014 , 13:35 BST Great disk there Steve!

Great disk there Steve!

That's a gorgeous sunrise mate!

These are looking very good indeed!

Great results michael!

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