4th March 2012

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4th March 2012

Post by astroshot »

Images from this morning.
Terrible seeing.
Images taken with Baader herschel wedge, Lunt CaK filter, DMK21 and TEC140.


http://www.astroshot.com/Solar/2012/12- ... -04-13.jpg


http://www.astroshot.com/Solar/2012/12- ... -11-23.jpg


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Post by marktownley »

Great CaK shot Michael! The earth for scale really puts this thing into perspective!

The other image isn't showing for me - just the lil' red cross in a box...

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was being impatient! There it is now, looks good!!! :)


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Post by Pedro »

Great job Michael. I also imaged this morning but had only a 10 min window...

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Post by Montana »

Excellent couple of pics :)

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Very nice images... beautiful!


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Hi Michael

both are very fine shots and with processing I like, not too soft and not to harsh


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H Michael...

Terrible seeing or not, they turned out very well. Good work!

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Hey, those are are aweswome! Ok, how in the world do you put a lunt CaK module on a baader wedge?


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