Full Disks - 3 wavelengths from Yesterday morning

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Greetings, This weekend has been crazy, Ive taken hordes of solar, lunar and planetary images at two different observatories. Ill try to post the highlights over the next few days! Lets start with yesterdays full disk shots in White (continuum), CaK, and Halpha. Always trying to improve my techniques, this set will have a new more bold look that shows increased details. For the Cak, and Halpha, I used I-USM at a radius of 1 pixel. for the white light Registax wavelents, radius 1 pixel. the cak and white were with the 80mm f/6 at prime focus, and Halpha was the Lunt LS100 with .5x Antares focal reducer. Seeing was 1.5/5 which is not good for close ups, but by takeing 3x the number of frames, I came out like a bandit on these!

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Sunrise behind pines:






CaK:



Halpha:




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Hi Chris...

All three images look very good. You have sharp detail and a I like the colour pallet applied to each wavelenght as well. Great job...looking forward to the images yet to come.

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Hi Chris

a very fine crisp job


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Top shots Chris! ;)


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Hi Chris
These are cool - I like the artistic tree shot!
The Ha is a little too tweaked to me (this is not a criticism at all) this is a fine collection and I have enjoyed looking at them!
Looking forward to the rest of your weekend sessions.


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Geee
I like the CaK image!
One of these days I'm going to get an image like that!


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Wonderful, wonderful! I love them all :)

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Thanks so much everyone for your support, without I would not improve as fast as I have. Matt, Your right, I may have gotten carried away with the flattening of the limb darkening. I offer to you this image, with the limb darkening restored:




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Hi Chris,

Just outstanding, all of them !! As Merlin said, one of these days I will be producing images like those.
Another point is the 1.5/5 seeing versus the image quality. Admirable !!

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Fernando, I am discovering that taking two to four times the number of frames on days of bad seeing will help a lot in getting something useable. Certainly a minimum of 2000 frames is required.


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Hi Chris,
Yes, that makes sense. Thanks for the tip.

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Outstanding results Chris, I’d love to see those images in full res. Is there any way to do it here in the forum since they don’t have any link?


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did you click the image and view the popup? should be full res..


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Can I be a pain :) I think it is rather dark now :whistle:

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did you click the image and view the popup? should be full res..

Yes I’ve tried that first and the popup image appears smaller than the one posted in the forum, the same with other images that’s why I always include a link to my full res images, that’s just me??? or does everybody else knows something that I don’t? :S


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[quote]did you click the image and view the popup? should be full res..

Yes I’ve tried that first and the popup image appears smaller than the one posted in the forum, the same with other images that’s why I always include a link to my full res images, that’s just me??? or does everybody else knows something that I don’t? :S

Same thing has always happened with me - the images in LightBox are the same size or often smaller :unsure:


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Just right clik with your mouse on the image and choose SAVE AS (save teh image somewhere in your compuer). Then you can see the FULL SIZE image with another program (eg. Picasa). Works for me. Most of us use small laptop computers all the time... With really BIG screens might be different.

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Well, here is how it is supposed to work.

If you upload the image and insert it into the thread, the popup will show the argest possible version that will fit on your screen in a popup window. If you link to the image on the web, then the popup will show the exqact same image as you linked to.

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Ill post full size 1600 sized images on my web site by this weekend, and post it here. The stuff I got Sunday is mind blowing from 7000 feet elevation! Thats whats next. Keep looking up...


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