Saturdays Ha and more on the SSM Plugin - 28th July
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Saturdays Ha and more on the SSM Plugin - 28th July
I'm starting to like this plugin more and more. I spent some time yesterday with it in Sodium with the Hat, and while the seeing was not up to much it gave me time to get my head around how it works, this morning I was keen to give it a go weather permitting. I was lucky to grab a gap first thing between rain bands.
clouds by Mark Townley, on Flickr
The plugin was able to pull all the best frames which was triggered by the Airylab SSM, it's rare I get a quality graph like this in AS3
quality-graph by Mark Townley, on Flickr
The dip was a bit of cloud that drifted by... I started off using my pair of double stacked Lunt 50s on the ED60 scope to get the full disk. Coronado BF15 and PGR Chameleon 3 camera was used.
ha-full-disk-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ha-full-disk-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Then I took off the double stacking etalon and replaced at the other end with my Daystar Quark to get in a little closer on the departing filaments. I should have changed the camera as the image is over sampled with the 3.45um pixels of the CH3, the 5.86um pixels of my IMX249 chipped PGR would have been better.
filaments-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
filaments-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
May get some more gaps between the showers in a bit!
Mark
clouds by Mark Townley, on Flickr
The plugin was able to pull all the best frames which was triggered by the Airylab SSM, it's rare I get a quality graph like this in AS3
quality-graph by Mark Townley, on Flickr
The dip was a bit of cloud that drifted by... I started off using my pair of double stacked Lunt 50s on the ED60 scope to get the full disk. Coronado BF15 and PGR Chameleon 3 camera was used.
ha-full-disk-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ha-full-disk-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Then I took off the double stacking etalon and replaced at the other end with my Daystar Quark to get in a little closer on the departing filaments. I should have changed the camera as the image is over sampled with the 3.45um pixels of the CH3, the 5.86um pixels of my IMX249 chipped PGR would have been better.
filaments-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
filaments-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
May get some more gaps between the showers in a bit!
Mark
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Re: Saturdays Ha and more on the SSM Plugin - 28th July
Based on the quality graph, Mark, it looks like a winner. I'll have to take a look at that option myself.
Nice images. Once those filaments have gone there won't be much to see at these scales.
No chance of anything this weekend here in the NW......cloudy and rain showers.
Stu.
Nice images. Once those filaments have gone there won't be much to see at these scales.
No chance of anything this weekend here in the NW......cloudy and rain showers.
Stu.
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Re: Saturdays Ha and more on the SSM Plugin - 28th July
Thanks Stu. I got another gap so had a go at some Calcium. Just going through the data now.
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Re: Saturdays Ha and more on the SSM Plugin - 28th July
And some CaK using the ED80, Beloptik Tri-band ERF and homebrew CaK filter. The seeing was all over the place now and it was a case of shooting in the gaps in the fast moving clouds, but the software seems to have pulled some respectful data from it. Gradually zooming in at different levels here:
cak-mid-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
cak-mid-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
cak-closer-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
cak-closer-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
cak-close-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
cak-close-cololur by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Quite pleased with these as the atmosphere was very unstable. Rain forecast now for the rest of the weekend so unlikely imaging till early next week now. Will give me some time to work on a reliable way to get the PGR cams to export the data at the native rate of its analogue digital converter; i've been having some success with this just need to work on my method to get it reliable and repeatable...
Mark
cak-mid-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
cak-mid-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
cak-closer-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
cak-closer-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
cak-close-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
cak-close-cololur by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Quite pleased with these as the atmosphere was very unstable. Rain forecast now for the rest of the weekend so unlikely imaging till early next week now. Will give me some time to work on a reliable way to get the PGR cams to export the data at the native rate of its analogue digital converter; i've been having some success with this just need to work on my method to get it reliable and repeatable...
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Re: Saturdays Ha and more on the SSM Plugin - 28th July
Hi Mark,
that is an exceptional quality graph you have there. Seldom seen anything like that. How did you configure the plugin. I suppose you have set the discard treshold and recorded several bursts in one capture file? (If not you had exceptional extremely stable seeing ...)
Paul
that is an exceptional quality graph you have there. Seldom seen anything like that. How did you configure the plugin. I suppose you have set the discard treshold and recorded several bursts in one capture file? (If not you had exceptional extremely stable seeing ...)
Paul
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Re: Saturdays Ha and more on the SSM Plugin - 28th July
Hi Mark...
Excellent results in bot CaK and Ha using the plugin.
Brian
Excellent results in bot CaK and Ha using the plugin.
Brian
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Re: Saturdays Ha and more on the SSM Plugin - 28th July
Thanks Everyone.
Here's a screenshot of the SSM display from friday:
ssm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
It tells a story, it was cloudy until about 10.20am -the yellow line is the suns intensity, you can just about make out when the sun was out the line was wiggly which is the tell tale sign of high cloud / haze interfering with the view. The seeing was really up and down, very unstable, and was getting worse till I finally decided to call it a day just after 11am. The 2 horizontal lines are the trigger and cut off lines - in this case when the seeing was 3" it would start the camera recording, and when the seeing was less than 3.8" it no longer records. The idea is to set the trigger and threshold so that you are only capturing the data in the bottom of the valley troughs on the graph. I got some images around 8am with the 203mm HaT and Na quark, the seeing was slightly better then, but even this method can't work miracles when the seeing isn't up to it.
hat-na-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
hat-na-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Soft and mushy!
I'll try and get some more screen grabs of the software in action in the days ahead if the weather plays ball!
Mark
Here's a screenshot of the SSM display from friday:
ssm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
It tells a story, it was cloudy until about 10.20am -the yellow line is the suns intensity, you can just about make out when the sun was out the line was wiggly which is the tell tale sign of high cloud / haze interfering with the view. The seeing was really up and down, very unstable, and was getting worse till I finally decided to call it a day just after 11am. The 2 horizontal lines are the trigger and cut off lines - in this case when the seeing was 3" it would start the camera recording, and when the seeing was less than 3.8" it no longer records. The idea is to set the trigger and threshold so that you are only capturing the data in the bottom of the valley troughs on the graph. I got some images around 8am with the 203mm HaT and Na quark, the seeing was slightly better then, but even this method can't work miracles when the seeing isn't up to it.
hat-na-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
hat-na-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Soft and mushy!
I'll try and get some more screen grabs of the software in action in the days ahead if the weather plays ball!
Mark
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Re: Saturdays Ha and more on the SSM Plugin - 28th July
Interesting stuff Mark.
I may get my SSM out again and see if I can get it to work.
I may get my SSM out again and see if I can get it to work.
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For higher resolution stuff I think it has real potential Steve.
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Re: Saturdays Ha and more on the SSM Plugin - 28th July
Looking good Mark
I had a few problems with the plugin in Firecapture 2.5. It worked OK in version 26 though
It is a great plugin. I will use from now on for HR imaging (WL and H-alpha)
Thanks for sharing
My autostakkert graphs look like the one you got most of the times ;-)
I had a few problems with the plugin in Firecapture 2.5. It worked OK in version 26 though
It is a great plugin. I will use from now on for HR imaging (WL and H-alpha)
Thanks for sharing
My autostakkert graphs look like the one you got most of the times ;-)
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Re: Saturdays Ha and more on the SSM Plugin - 28th July
Really great Mark! Love the cells.
Very best,
Very best,
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Thanks guys! Looking forward to being able to test this some more in the new week
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Re: Saturdays Ha and more on the SSM Plugin - 28th July
You got some cracking shots Mark, I like the sodium the best
Amazing how we had a 30 degree week and the moment Friday evening came it started to rain and we had a rubbish weekend. Oh and look out the window Monday morning and it is calm and blue sky sunny again
Alexandra
Amazing how we had a 30 degree week and the moment Friday evening came it started to rain and we had a rubbish weekend. Oh and look out the window Monday morning and it is calm and blue sky sunny again
Alexandra