CaK in high resolution of August 3rd and 6th

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CaK in high resolution of August 3rd and 6th

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Two more CaK images from August 3rd and August 6th, and two more attempts at image processing that takes the DOT pictures as a standard.

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Nice images- I just see them in my Monitor a bit dark.

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Delightful images and processing :bow

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Looking good!


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Re: CaK in high resolution of August 3rd and 6th

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Thanks, Alexandra and Mark!

Rainer, you are right, the images are quite dark, certainly a lot darker than most CaK images posted here on solarchat or on CN, and I am not sure if I find them aesthetically very pleasing. However, my intention in processing them was to get a "look" similar to the CaK images of the Dutch Open Telescope, in order to compare them and to try to understand which/how much of the surface structures in the images depict real structures on the sun and which/how much are processing artefacts. (Tinkering a little with the settings for deconvolution and/or other sharpening tools it is not difficult to generate very different looking surface structures, at least that was my experience with high resolution CaK images, so I wanted some kind of standard from the professional imagers for what is real and what is not. I explained this in a little more detail in another thread, i.e. here: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=24905)

Two of the DOT images I have in mind are this:

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and this (right-hand side):

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To study my own images side by side with them the darkness helps, I think. One question that this seems to answer for me is, how the thin "worm-like" structures in my images come about: At first they looked susiciously like sharpening artefacts to me, in particular in the darker areas (some kind of blown-up, sharpened noise), not like the kind of structures I had expected to see on a big plasma ball, so to speak. Looking at the DOT images, however, seems to me to suggest that the worm-like structures are blurred versions (blurred because of the smaller apertures of our amateur scopes, plus seeing maybe) of the finer, much more delicate corresponding structures in the DOT pictures - and these look much more plausible as plasma structures to me.

A lighter version of my first image would look like this:

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Thanks for your comments! Regards,

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Re: CaK in high resolution of August 3rd and 6th

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LTHB wrote: Wed Aug 15, 2018 8:02 pm Looking at the DOT images, however, seems to me to suggest that the worm-like structures are blurred versions (blurred because of the smaller apertures of our amateur scopes, plus seeing maybe) of the finer, much more delicate corresponding structures in the DOT pictures - and these look much more plausible as plasma structures to me.
it seems plausible to me... which instrument/ filters have you used ?


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Scope was a Mewlon 210 with Lunt CaK filter, double-stacked with a yellow PST filter, Aries front ERF.

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Re: CaK in high resolution of August 3rd and 6th

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Hi Frank,

Very pleasant HR CaK images!!

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Re: CaK in high resolution of August 3rd and 6th

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LTHB wrote: Thu Aug 16, 2018 6:24 pm Scope was a Mewlon 210 with Lunt CaK filter, double-stacked with a yellow PST filter, Aries front ERF.
I have a Mewlon 210 too... that's sounds interesting, it would considerably expand my imaging capabilities in this region. Thanks for info.


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