SolarChat!

Been a while since I posted here, so I thought I would pop back and say "Hi". Hope you are all doing well. I took a bit of an enforced a break from solar over the winter as I loose the Sun from mid-November until mid Feb (due to trees) and then other things just got in the way! I'm back to imaging consistently now and have a Quark on order for some H alpha fun in a couple of weeks when it arrives.

Lots to see in Ca-K today, a new plage area rounded the limb overnight and there are a collection of new proms associated with it. The plage area that rounded the limb a couple of days back is still going strong and has a nice prom associated too. The off-going limb still has a lot of nice proms which are associated with the plage area that recently departed the Earth-facing hemisphere.

So first up my 6 pane pano full disks. All shot with the ASI178MM @ native 1000mm of the Skywatcher Evostar 120. Stacked in AS!3, sharpened in ImPPG, stitched in Autostitch and finished in GIMP 2.10. I've made some changes to my processing workflow to include some tone curve manipulation in ImPPG and tweaked Autostitch to export full size panorama rather than limiting to roughly 2000x2000px.


Then the proms, lots of them All of these were shot binned 2x2 to help with contrast


Last one shot with a 1.5x barlow added

Great processing of those proms, they are really crisp.

Thanks. Despite all that ImPPG can do (and it is brilliant) I still find that a last round of unsharp mask in GIMP + a touch of Gaussian blur gives me the best overall detail levels.

Good to see you back David! Great images as usual. I'm sure you will enjoy your Quark.

Thanks Mark. Only taken me a year to take the plunge on the Quark!

Very nice, David.

You managed to capture those CaK proms quite nicely.

Thanks Jochen. Managed to catch some half-decent seeing this morning.

great to see you back posting here David, I hope you are well these are fantastic and the usual beautiful CaK proms too

Alexandra

Thanks Alexandra. I am well thank you, hope you and yours are safe and well too.

Welcome back, David. Lovely images to get back in the groove with

Stu.

Thanks Stu

David:
Good to see your beautiful work again.
Best regards,
Eric.

I love the negative appearance of your work. Nice!

Thanks for posting David. Interesting to see something other than Ha.