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Hello everyone...

I have a few more images from Mondays session. I originally posted the full disk, but here are the longer focal length images. All images use a Lunt LS80T/DSII/B1200Ha + 2x teleconverter + Infinity 2-1M camera.

To start, the three AR's on the eastern part of disk...AR1428, AR1429 & AR1430. This is tuned to where I thought the greatest activity was seen aroudn AR11429.


Due to the cold temps, I had a lot of fiddling with the preessure tuners, and found this had a nice combination of sunspot details and the small bright features. This has poor contrast, just posting to show the difference to the above image.


Last, I have the western disk with AR1423 approaching the limb.


Now, the bigger hole I have dug for myself involves the attempt to animate 2.5 hrs of images (54 I think). I finsihed one AVI off last night but it is huge...100+ MB. Just wondering what software folks are using to generate the animations to get some form of compression to drop the imgae size. I generated it form MaximCCD, bu thsi is the only program I have to generate animations. I need to do some cropping as the frames jump around as it stays locked on the AR, so that will reduce it as bit. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Brian


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Post by swisswalter »

Hi Brian

very fine shots. You dug the hole, you jump in it, there is no way out of it ;)

Has the second shot some newton rings ? It looks a little bit unusual to me


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Hi Walter...

I'm still in my hole...AVI file too large to upload...or so it seems. Will keep working at it.

I also noticed the bands in the one ime, and they are in many others but no where near as prominant. I took them as newton rings as well. So long as they stay fairly inconspicuous I am not going to worry.

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Brian


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Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/185395281@N08/albums

10'x15 Roll-off Roof Observatory
Takahashi EM400 Mount carrying:
C14 + Lunt 80ED
Deep Sky Work - ASI294MM Pro+EFW 7x36/Canon 60D (Ha mod), ONAG
Planetary Work - SBIG CFW10, ASI462MM

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Orion EON 130ED, f7 OTA for Day & Night Use
Ha Setup: Lunt LS80PT/LS75FHa/B1200Ha + Home Brew Lunt Double Stack/B1800Ha on the Orion OTA + Daystar Quantum
WL, G-Band & CaK Setup: Lunt Wedge & Lunt B1800CaK, Baader K-Line and Altair 2nm G-Band filter
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Post by depes »

Hello Brian

Here we can see a new setup.. and interesting pictures from the our Star... ;)
I believe that it is the right time to use also my LUM Skynyx 2-0C... ;) :idea:

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Top shots Brian!


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Post by Montana »

Lovely pictures! nice to see the off band comparison.

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