A beautiful set of images!

A beautiful set of images!

That's a serious case of 3D! Amazing sense of perspective! Congratulations on your skills!

Stunning detail rendered with exceptional delicacy.

I'm running out of superlatives!

Superb sharpness and a wonderfully captured prom.

Thank you all for your kind words. :bow Like all of us here I am constantly at the mercy of the seeing conditions. The practice I get as I struggle against the whiles of our own atmosphere must have benefits when it finally allows a closer peek. The standards set by those who post their images here ...

Incredible image quality!

Incredible image quality!

This is becoming a habit. :D I have all my captures and images on the observatory laptop. So I'm borrowing today's images from my blog to post from my PC indoors. I hate the small screen 15.6" and lack of a mouse on the laptop. Which I bring in overnight, but leave the monitor, keyboard and mouse be...

There's more than a little irony in your superb image related to the fires.

A 48 second video of three short videos merged to show the flare peak:
Though it was certainly visible in much earlier videos.
The dreadful seeing conditions are obvious from the first glance.
A smaller flare is visible on the edge of AR2776.

https://youtu.be/3v5Pe2ea9TE

I have merged the three videos which captured the flare and uploaded them to YouTube as a single video. A glance at the video quality will confirm the dire seeing conditions on the 18th. The flare appears to be a "four headed dragon" at times. This was lost in the processing to single images. https:...

Thanks!

As I said in the SPOD thread I tried to blot out the flare because it spoilt the image!

Absolutely fabulous detail!

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Mon Oct 19, 2020 12:00 pm

Wow!! some great flare activity in these images Looks like you caught the B4 class flare at 14:29 UTC

Alexandra

I spent quarter of an hour trying to block out that big white Blob in image handling software.

I almost 'cloned' over it!

Thank you all for your kind words. :bow I was in two minds over sharing these. The worse the seeing, the harder I have to work ImPPG for detail. It can produce a strangely artificial look to my daubs which I really dislike. While simultaneously I don't want to hide the detail. Fortunately I was able...

Thank you all for your kind words. :bow I was in two minds over sharing these. The worse the seeing, the harder I have to work ImPPG for detail. It can produce a strangely artificial look to my daubs which I really dislike. While simultaneously I don't want to hide the detail. Fortunately I was able...

Cloudy morning followed by brighter intervals with dreadful seeing. I had to use the PST BF to drag any detail out of the mush. 18.10.20 12.44 Lunt 1.25 wedge, 2x Orion Shorty 2x GPC.jpg 18.10.20 15.20 PST BF 2x gpc prom.jpg 18.10.20 15.36 PST BF 2.6x gpc bw.jpg 18.10.20 16.00 b1200s2 2.6x gpc.jpg 1...

Cloudy morning followed by brighter intervals with dreadful seeing. I had to use the PST BF to drag any detail out of the mush. 18.10.20 12.44 Lunt 1.25 wedge, 2x Orion Shorty 2x GPC.jpg 18.10.20 15.20 PST BF 2x gpc prom.jpg 18.10.20 15.36 PST BF 2.6x gpc bw.jpg 18.10.20 16.00 b1200s2 2.6x gpc.jpg 1...

Incredibly sharp images!

Thanks. Not sure whether I can obtain 100% ethanol legally. I may just hold the D-ERF under running water and finish off with a rinse with distilled water. :o The nearest we get to moonshine, in Denmark, is cross-border, cheap, German beer smuggling. :roll: I seriously doubt that a bath in Danish la...

Thank you all for your kind words of encouragement.

Categorically leave the primary focuser at the -200mm position - do not alter it!!! Ever!!! The 2 images will likely be the blocking filter, rotating it should shift the ghost off the view. It could be the DERF, try rotating that, worth exploring if the blocking filter option doesn't shift it. Rota...

A clear morning looked promising but the seeing was far too soft to show any detail. Best I can manage today. All were cropped. Too over-processed! It is completely overcast now. :cry: 17.10.20 10.48 b1200 1.6x gpc bw.jpg 17.10.20 11.00 b1200 1.6x gpc bw.jpg The last three were the same image with v...

Good capture Chris. Looks like something is tilted in your new configuration that is producing the offband in the opposite corners. With a 2.6x GP you should be right in the centre of the sweetspot with no offband in the fov. Have you tried rotating the whole module in the focuser to find the most ...