Adventures with the LS80 on Oct 2

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Adventures with the LS80 on Oct 2

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Sometimes I find using the LS80 so much less stressful than doing higher res work.
All the following used an LS80 at 1120mm with a PGR 1" G3 or 2/3" G3

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WOW

Great images


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Beautiful images Lou...excellent work :bow

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Always best to do what you have most fun with :) this is a stunning full disc, I love the detail :hamster: :bow
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Great FD images Lou


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Nice images, Lou.
gabrieli wrote: Tue Oct 03, 2017 6:37 pm Sometimes I find using the LS80 so much less stressful than doing higher res work.
This is easy. But... also so much different finall prize! I have spent a whole last two
weeks trying to catch the same high res images I were able to catch last summer.
Partial success only. With a C11 I get the results which are a bit better than typical 9" Ha
telescopes can do, but far not as C11 can do at it's best.

However I were quite happy during this great hunt! Tons of processed movies, tens of
processed stacked images with a moderate success. Every time I start processing the next movie,
the next raw stacked image, I was experiencing extremely high expectations, high hopes that now,
at this time, I will finally get a real great result! These are such wonderful, intoxicating hopes for
maximum results! I do not experience anything like this, using small telescopes of 100-150mm for
sun imaging. Reach a success with a large aperture and then no way back.


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Truly excellent images, Lou ! Both the surface shots and the FD's show incredible detail.

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Beautiful work, Lou.

Sometimes it IS nice to go the less stressful route.

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Nice images Lou!

For me it's about a balance of aperture and being able to get regular results. I feel this summer i've wasted too much time making repeated exposures at 8" trying to capture these brief moments of good seeing, that in the end never really materialised. I should have just backed off on the aperture, say to 5" and got some images instead of endless Gb of blurry movies. It comes down to experience of local conditions I think.


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