Sun FD in H-Alpha 24th of March 2021

[arnedanielsen]

Yesterday was mostly scattered clouds, but in the afternoon it cleared enough for a quick imaging session - still through some high cirrus-clouds though.

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Equipment used for this image was a Takahashi Sky-90 II with SolarMax 90 and BF15 filter, Baader 35nm H-Alpha filter, 2x Cemax Barlow and ASI ZWO 1600MM PRO camera. Everything mounted on a Paramount ME mount.
Stack of the best 60% (400of 673) images captured with an exposure time of 2.3ms, gain 0, HighSpeed=On and 22fps. Stacking done in Autostakkert 3, sharpening in AstraImage and contrast stretching in Adobe PhotoShop.

Best regards,
Arne

[MAURITS]

Beautiful disc Arne.

[eroel]

Arne:
A nice clean and crisp FD.
Regards,
Eric.

[DeepSolar64]

Very nice Arne. Clouds have had me missing it.

[Montana]

Superb full disc the disc looks very similar to yesterday when I had a peep, so not much changed overnight.

Alexandra

[ffellah]

The disk came out really well, Arne

Franco

[rsfoto]

Hi Arne,

Well done

[Stardust5858]

Lovely capture Arne, well done through the clouds.

[MapleRidge]

Well done Arne

Brian

[arnedanielsen]

Thank you all for your kind comments!

The resulting image turned out better than I expected considering the amount of cirrus.

Best regards,
Arne

[marktownley]

Great disk through the cirrus Arne!