Wow - fantastic detail and activity in your movies.

Maybe you should get one of those hydraulic cranes that car mechanics use to hoist engines around....at least until your roadie is back on the job.

Alexandra, would processing in PIPP help? In addition to accepting what the SER header indicates, PIPP has a 15 bit input option.

David

Lovely pictures Mark. Aurora hunting seems a good option when the sun isn't cooperative. Whereabouts in Iceland?

David

Great images, Christian. I take it that the G-band is picking up both calcium and iron lines, or is it just calcium in the 2nm bandpass?

David

Wow - fantastic detail Valery. Really shows what the big apertures can do.

David

Great stuff! It's mesmerizing to watch the granulation cells evolve, and the flowing prominence is stunning.

David

Spectacular images, Eric. If I might ask - what is the difference between the one with "spline2" in the label and the previous?

David

Really nice animation and disks Patrick.

For mosaics, I've had some luck with Autostitch

http://matthewalunbrown.com/autostitch/autostitch.html

which comes in Mac and Windows versions.

David

Thanks Alexandra - your blog has been a great help, especially regarding camera parameters. And thank you for the suggestion of ImPPG - I will give that a try.

David

Stu and Alfred, thanks very much. Tomorrow's forecast calls for morning sun and freezing temperatures, possibly an opportunity for some h-alpha captures.

cheers

David

Hi Franco, Pedro, Eric:

Many thanks! The cold weather and snow have rolled in here, so I hope to use the time for processing some h-alpha observations made a few months ago.

all the best

David

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