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Transit of Mercury in the Spicule Layer. Phil took this great image with his Quantum 6 Scope, Solar Spectrum etalon and PGR Camera.
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- Tue Oct 22, 2019 2:00 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
- Replies: 41
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Re: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
Nice job, Gov. Glad to see IMPPG in your toolkit.
- Sun Oct 20, 2019 2:00 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1326
Re: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
Rusted, Your words cracked me up. I'm still chuckling When I find a moment I will add my favorite tutorial links. But as you noted, they were hard won. There is a sub forum here which has tutorials listedbbut is is pretty thin. Mark, Alexandra, The Great Attractor (creator of imPPG) and others all h...
- Sun Oct 20, 2019 12:42 am
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1326
Re: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
Nice work, Phil. To make sure, asking for workflow is for a commonly available file such as what Alfred provided. Then the numbers and workflow are relevant. I would love for Valerie to post his raw sunspot file then his obviously lovely processing Regarding the Alfred file, I love the softer-then-m...
- Sat Oct 19, 2019 9:50 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1326
Re: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
Val, Your sunspot image is indeed amazing, but I think we'd love to see your workflow to get it. Recognizing that every optical train merits slightly different treatment, I'd love to see how you went from the Raw Image to Stacking to LR Decon (if you do) to PS/GIMP. Just a comment about using the un...
- Sat Oct 19, 2019 2:22 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1326
Re: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
This is an outstanding thread. I am carefully looking at each attempt and learning. Great job to Marty and Pedro and of course Val and Alfred. I will try again taking some of the new techniques.
- Fri Oct 18, 2019 4:28 am
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1326
Re: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
Alfred you good person you! Ok...I got your file and put it into IMPPG. I had to use VERY high SIGMAs (maybe that's part of the secret) and these settings: 2019-10-17_21-17-21.jpg Then I brought it into GIMP for some more processing and ended up with this: 94920 1500f Alfred to Val to imppg to gimp....
- Fri Oct 18, 2019 3:20 am
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1326
Re: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
That’s what I suspected. Dang. If he wants to post it I will host it.
- Thu Oct 17, 2019 10:51 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1326
Re: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
So I just downloaded Alfred's large image (I hope that was OK) and ran it through IMPPG. I was not able to get any kind of usable image anywhere near suitable for the next stage of processing...say in GIMP. I tried every combination of settings including some bizarre extremes. Maybe I should not hav...
- Thu Oct 17, 2019 8:03 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1326
Re: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
I agree with Alexandra, the ‘usual’ is pretty standard. My only difference is I choose, ‘CROPPED’ and ‘IMPROVED TRACKING”. I’ve done lots of variations and I frankly don’t see much difference in AP SIZE or even 10/20/50/75 percent of images.
- Thu Oct 17, 2019 8:03 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1326
Re: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
I agree with Alexandra, the ‘usual’ is pretty standard. My only difference is I choose, ‘CROPPED’ and ‘IMPROVED TRACKING”. I’ve done lots of variations and I frankly don’t see much difference in AP SIZE or even 10/20/50/75 percent of images.
- Thu Oct 17, 2019 2:37 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1326
Re: Importance of the image restoration in the solar imaging.
Game on! I am going to try and process this myself and describe my steps. That was the purpose of my Training File folder I created a whole back. Trying to replicate the works of Rembrandt teach us many valuable lessons.
- Thu Oct 17, 2019 2:41 am
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Oct 16 FDs LS80
- Replies: 11
- Views: 455
Re: Oct 16 FDs LS80
Nice contrast in my humble opinion...eleven the one with modest processing.
- Thu Oct 17, 2019 1:10 am
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: 11" SCT for imaging at 393nm.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 634
Re: 11" SCT for imaging at 393nm.
Ummm , I still think Val is cheating by using a space suit and a go pro unit a few miles above the surface. It’s the only plausible explanation for any of his high res work.
Seriously good stuff.
Seriously good stuff.
- Thu Oct 17, 2019 1:07 am
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: animation on our star on October 16th
- Replies: 23
- Views: 523
Re: animation on our star on October 16th
Terrific motion clarity
- Thu Oct 17, 2019 1:05 am
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Some events from Oct 15
- Replies: 11
- Views: 339
Re: Some events from Oct 15
Love that long prom as well.
- Thu Oct 17, 2019 1:04 am
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: October 15th Session
- Replies: 13
- Views: 318
Re: October 15th Session
Brian,
Thanks for posting all the compares. Every data point like these are helpful.
And nice shots as well.
Thanks for posting all the compares. Every data point like these are helpful.
And nice shots as well.
- Tue Oct 15, 2019 1:26 am
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Quark Proms and Chrom Oct 10th
- Replies: 14
- Views: 399
Re: Quark Proms and Chrom Oct 10th
Thanks all. What's interesting is that the more I Practice the more I can see comments like Val's. But Alexandra's point is spot on, risk of a poor Quark in exchange vs the angst of exchange versus just pure enjoyment.
Cheers,
Jack
Cheers,
Jack
- Mon Oct 14, 2019 9:00 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Quark Proms and Chrom Oct 10th
- Replies: 14
- Views: 399
Re: Quark Proms and Chrom Oct 10th
Crab nuggets. Ok! Good catch.
Thanks Mark
Thanks Mark
- Mon Oct 14, 2019 4:15 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Quark Proms and Chrom Oct 10th
- Replies: 14
- Views: 399
Re: Quark Proms and Chrom Oct 10th
Good stuff, Stu. Thank you. The large blobs are from the flats. I will indeed work on the small little round artifacts as directed.
Jack
Jack
- Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:34 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Quark Proms and Chrom Oct 10th
- Replies: 14
- Views: 399
Re: Quark Proms and Chrom Oct 10th
Lol. No offense taken!!
- Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:34 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Quark Proms and Chrom Oct 10th
- Replies: 14
- Views: 399
Re: Quark Proms and Chrom Oct 10th
Lol. No offense taken!!
- Mon Oct 14, 2019 4:19 am
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Some Images in Ha with Quark Chrosphere Oct. 12, 2019
- Replies: 12
- Views: 345
Re: Some Images in Ha with Quark Chrosphere Oct. 12, 2019
What is your Quark dial set at? Idike to s3e more contrast on the surface portions and that is where my questions are driving.
Also, which capture software are you using and are you using any kind of secondary filter like a polarizer or a UVIR Cut?
Cheers,
Jack
Also, which capture software are you using and are you using any kind of secondary filter like a polarizer or a UVIR Cut?
Cheers,
Jack
- Sun Oct 13, 2019 9:38 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Some Images in Ha with Quark Chrosphere Oct. 12, 2019
- Replies: 12
- Views: 345
Re: Some Images in Ha with Quark Chrosphere Oct. 12, 2019
I like them all. What is your processing workflow? Do you use IMPPG? That is key for me to really adjust some curves, contrast and LR Deconvolution.
- Sun Oct 13, 2019 5:20 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Prom Oct. 11 Questar/Quark Combo
- Replies: 10
- Views: 324
Re: Prom Oct. 11 Questar/Quark Combo
That is a great combo.
- Sun Oct 13, 2019 5:19 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Plage Progression Through Cycle 24
- Replies: 14
- Views: 452
Re: Plage Progression Through Cycle 24
That is an amazing and heavy lift. Well done sir.