DeepSolar64 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2023 3:41 am Have you ever visited BBSO or at least been to Big Bear Lake to see it?

Unfortunately I have not. Relocate here from mid Atlantic a few years ago and have not visited big bear yet. One day hopefully.

Nicely done

DeepSolar64 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 9:45 pm Very nice! Your image closely resembles today's GONG Big Bear image. Except yours needs flipped vertically.


GONGBBSOCA_Ha_11-21-23_JP.jpg

Big bear isn’t that far from where I am at. The images were taken less than an hour apart as well.

Finally so decent seeing.

Lunt 60mm SS/ ASI178MM

may have one a bit to far in sharpening on that one.....

Those proms!
The shots are excellent.

You may find this link very helpful in weighing out all your options.

https://www.wilmslowastro.com/software/formulae.htm#FR

Absolutely spectacular

Excellent

I dont understand the concept of imaging the suns full disk with a c9.25. Do you have other telescopes? Just responding here as well, because I do appreciate everyone sharing their thoughts. :) I actually really liked how much detail I was able to get with the higher magnification. I liked my image...

Danielle,
You may also want to try and tune your quark more to the blue, and see if that helps. You got nothing to loose but a few minutes of warm up time for the quark to adjust temperature. If the poster on cloudy nights was on to something that may help or solve the issue your having.

Incredible detail, fantastic images

Very nice

Both animated time lapse are cropped from full disc animation over 1 hour.

Seeing was average, clarity was terrible.
Lunt 60mm SS ASI178MM
Between terrible forecast and holiday coming up. I take as much opportunity as I can get.

The Animation is great,nice details

https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/698786-imx178-grid-artifact-bug-mostly-squashed/ this is an interest dive into the subject as well. If I look at Danelle's image it is completely dofferent to what is depicted in Cloudynights message Danielle's image has marked horizotal lines as if the camera wou...

Animation is fantastic

spectacular!

Better man for me for even trying

fd_161123_passthrough.png near last@0.18x.png Both images from same data, first image inadvertently left in grayscale, and had color information applied as a pass-through filter. second image is same data with out the color information pass through filter. Now I am wondering if I should play with o...

https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/6987 ... -squashed/

this is an interest dive into the subject as well.

https://bbs.astronomy-imaging-camera.com/d/14183-autostakkert-314-removes-the-grid-pattern-of-imx178mm-sensor You also may want to try the process described above to see if it will work with your particular sample of the IMX178mm sensor. I have seen the same pattern off and on with my IMX178 as well...

Ultimately everything you will online find will just be a close but rough guide of about what to expect. The exact reducer used and the exact placement along in the image train is going to have an affect as well. Individual mileage is going to vary Bottom line is unless your spending big bucks on re...

You will get vignetting on that full frame sensor.
Flats may correct the issue or at least minimize it.
The link below will allow you to see the effects of how the reducer will effect your FOV as well as changes to the pixel scale.
https://astronomy.tools/calculators/field_of_view/

178fd 141123@0.22x.png Lunt 60mm SS, ZWO ASI178MM After reworking my tuning the other morning I decided to retry my ASI178MM once again. After today session I am convinced the slight pattern I saw before was a combination of equipment factors at the time. Despite the thin high level clouds I imaged...

Love the animation