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- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:55 pm
- Forum: SPoD Archive
- Topic: New Spectroheliograph construction (based on 102mm refractor)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 209
Re: New Spectroheliograph construction (based on 102mm refractor)
Stunning SHG images. No lines to see anywhere...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:55 pm
- Forum: Solar Radio, Magnetometry and Spectroscopy
- Topic: New Spectroheliograph construction (based on 102mm refractor)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 709
Re: New Spectroheliograph construction (based on 102mm refractor)
Stunning SHG images. No lines to see anywhere...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 7:23 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Full Disc 11-04-2024
- Replies: 8
- Views: 192
Full Disc 11-04-2024
Hi, Again sunshine as well as testing a new filter type called SCH which is freely avalaible from time to time :mrgreen: Here todays disc with still lots of activity in both lights and as usual best seen in a new tab/window for full size :bow2 https://rainerehlert.com/00_SCHForum/2024/04/FD_Ha_9Q_20...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:55 pm
- Forum: Sunlit Earth
- Topic: galaxy filed in ursa maior
- Replies: 6
- Views: 184
Re: galaxy filed in ursa maior
Nice images of M81 and M82
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:38 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Full Disc 10-04-2024
- Replies: 8
- Views: 211
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:23 pm
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: Partial Eclipse at my location
- Replies: 16
- Views: 251
Re: Partial Eclipse at my location
Hi,
I just found the image below. At least on Monday the Palm tree branches and leaves were useful
It is the shadow on the stairs to my observatory.
I just found the image below. At least on Monday the Palm tree branches and leaves were useful
It is the shadow on the stairs to my observatory.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:59 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Process my old CaK please
- Replies: 24
- Views: 505
Re: Process my old CaK please
Hi Tareq,
Just a 1:1 crop, a simple Histogram stretch and a tiny bit of Unsharp Mask. Nothing else as I still do not understand Over- or Under sampling
Important for you is to focus near perfection.
Just a 1:1 crop, a simple Histogram stretch and a tiny bit of Unsharp Mask. Nothing else as I still do not understand Over- or Under sampling
Important for you is to focus near perfection.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:44 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Full Disc 10-04-2024
- Replies: 8
- Views: 211
Full Disc 10-04-2024
Hi,
Beautiful blue sky as it should have been on Monday April 8 but OK, at least I did not have any clouds on Monday, just SMOG.
Here today's discs
Beautiful blue sky as it should have been on Monday April 8 but OK, at least I did not have any clouds on Monday, just SMOG.
Here today's discs
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:13 pm
- Forum: SPoD Archive
- Topic: Solar eclipse taken in México City, the 8th of April 2024.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 200
Re: Solar eclipse taken in México City, the 8th of April 2024.
Hola Eric,
Excellent job
Excellent job
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:13 pm
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: Solar eclipse taken in México City, the 8th of April 2024.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 383
Re: Solar eclipse taken in México City, the 8th of April 2024.
Hola Eric,
Excellent job
Excellent job
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:12 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: 10 April 2024.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 249
Re: 10 April 2024.
Excellent images
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 7:57 pm
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: Partial Eclipse at my location
- Replies: 16
- Views: 251
Re: Partial Eclipse at my location
Great images and Timelapse, Rainer. I’m surprised you didn’t make it to the centre line though. You can’t have been very far away from totality. Stu. Hi Stuart, Compared to the distances of the Universe, yes, just around the corner but in terrestrial units in straight line 400km was the shortest di...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:33 pm
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: Giving the Seestar its due 4/8/2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 256
Re: Giving the Seestar its due 4/8/2024
Hi Warren, Excellent. The best quote of the day was from a 5 year old girl that I showed the sun on my phone from the Seestar and she looked at the phone, then looked at the Seestar, and then looked at me and said, "That little thing does all of this?? That's cool!!" :girl: That little Gir...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 3:36 am
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: Total eclipse from Leakey, Texas
- Replies: 7
- Views: 153
Re: Total eclipse from Leakey, Texas
Excellent
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:45 pm
- Forum: SPoD Archive
- Topic: lucky shot
- Replies: 9
- Views: 134
Re: lucky shot
Hi Stephen,
Excellent
Excellent
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:45 pm
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: lucky shot
- Replies: 11
- Views: 250
Re: lucky shot
Hi Stephen,
Excellent
Excellent
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:12 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Full Disc 09-04-2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 296
Full Disc 09-04-2024
Hi, Good, Eclipse hassle is over and we can back to normal life until maybe a week before 30/03/2052 :mrgreen: Now it takes some time to get back into the saddle with the equipment and directories and image settings but here we go slowly. Today's disks taken a bit late because I was changing some th...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: April 8 2024. First eclipse pictures!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 188
Re: April 8 2024. First eclipse pictures!
Hi James,
Well done.
Well done.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:17 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Games with telecenters and cameras AR150/F6 - 8.4.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 405
Re: Games with telecenters and cameras AR150/F6 - 8.4.
Well done. How about the sag in that long optical train especially the push in connection at the very first point in the focuser.
You are a great machinist. Why not make a threaded adapter for that point?
You are a great machinist. Why not make a threaded adapter for that point?
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:09 pm
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: jet transit during eclipse 8/4/24
- Replies: 12
- Views: 251
Re: jet transit during eclipse 8/4/24
Excellent timing. Is the pilot your friend?
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:01 pm
- Forum: SPoD Archive
- Topic: Total Success from Mena, Arkansas
- Replies: 23
- Views: 315
Re: Total Success from Mena, Arkansas
Well deserved SPoD
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:48 pm
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: Partial Eclipse at my location
- Replies: 16
- Views: 251
Re: Partial Eclipse at my location
Hi, Forgot to add yesterday. The temperature dropped by 2.8°C as you can see. uddenly my visitors and I feelt cold and everybody said :cool: At max. coverage 12:17 the temperature was 25.2°C from the highest point 27.9°C at 11:32 local time The time on the graph is not correct. It is one hour ahead....
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:43 pm
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: Eclipse from NW Arizona
- Replies: 7
- Views: 184
Re: Eclipse from NW Arizona
Hi Paul,
Well done.
Well done.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:42 pm
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: Total Success from Mena, Arkansas
- Replies: 16
- Views: 229
Re: Total Success from Mena, Arkansas
Excellent. The trip was worth it.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:42 pm
- Forum: SPoD Archive
- Topic: Total Success from Mena, Arkansas
- Replies: 23
- Views: 315
Re: Total Success from Mena, Arkansas
Excellent. The trip was worth it.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:38 pm
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: Total Eclipse 4/8/2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 303
Re: Total Eclipse 4/8/2024
Hi Warren,
Excellent and for sure you had fun. Even I had fun and just being a partial eclipse at my location.
Excellent and for sure you had fun. Even I had fun and just being a partial eclipse at my location.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:33 pm
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: Partial Eclipse at my location
- Replies: 16
- Views: 251
Re: Partial Eclipse at my location
The first video is very impressive, I am presuming you kept it at a fixed exposure and it gradually got darker and darker, wow!! very moody! Great videos of the eclipses too, you were so close to totality! Alexandra Hi Alexandra, Thanks and Right. Did not touch the exposure time which is 0.196ms us...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:43 pm
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: European please, share your web-link to the Solar Eclipse 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 192
Re: European please, share your web-link to the Solar Eclipse 2024
Hi,Dennis wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:36 pm Yes.. just some stream on Youtube i guess..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzjunyh_v1g
Rainer also is streaming, but i dont know the link.
No, I did not stream but just posted my videos
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:12 pm
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: Partial Eclipse at my location
- Replies: 16
- Views: 251
Partial Eclipse at my location
Hi,
This is what I harvested today. All went trouble free except was a bit hazy due to SMOG. 3 hours and 5 minutes compressed in both videos to about 2 minutes 30 seconds. Thanks for watching
This is what I harvested today. All went trouble free except was a bit hazy due to SMOG. 3 hours and 5 minutes compressed in both videos to about 2 minutes 30 seconds. Thanks for watching
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 7:41 pm
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: Eclipse from Mazatlan
- Replies: 21
- Views: 424
Re: Eclipse from Mazatlan
Hi Brian,
Well done
Well done
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:22 pm
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: What about your weather for the Eclipse ?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 169
Re: What about your weather for the Eclipse ?
Hi,
T -36 and so far looks good except a lot of SMOG... but better then clouds
Here we go...
T -36 and so far looks good except a lot of SMOG... but better then clouds
Here we go...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:20 pm
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: Last sunset before the eclipse
- Replies: 3
- Views: 78
Re: Last sunset before the eclipse
Hi Brian,
Excellent. No green flash?
I was a bit worried about your location but today the weather looks good over there for today. Maybe a bit of Cirrus ¿?
Good luck
Excellent. No green flash?
I was a bit worried about your location but today the weather looks good over there for today. Maybe a bit of Cirrus ¿?
Good luck
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 11:50 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Full Disc 07-04-2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 231
Re: Full Disc 07-04-2024
Hi James,DeepSolar64 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:26 pm Very nice work Rainer. I hope you are ready for the eclipse tomorrow.
I am ready, but will the weather be ready and Mr Murphy in Australia ¿?
A friend 200 km south from me had problems which he did not have the days before...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 8:59 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Sunspot 3628 on April 6th
- Replies: 9
- Views: 424
Re: Sunspot 3628 on April 6th
Hi Paul,
Excellent non inverted images
Excellent non inverted images
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 8:57 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: April 6 2024 Imaging!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 312
Re: April 6 2024 Imaging!
Hi James,
Excellent images
Excellent images
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 8:42 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Full Disc 07-04-2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 231
Full Disc 07-04-2024
Hi,
Here two discs taken out of my live stream test for the eclipse tomorrow
Here two discs taken out of my live stream test for the eclipse tomorrow
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: H-alpha ds: on band?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 359
Re: H-alpha ds: on band?
From what I see you are in Band and about focusing, focusing has nothing to do with being in band or not ... IMHO
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 4:58 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Solar ISTAR 228/F9 in action 06.04.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 260
Re: Solar ISTAR 228/F9 in action 06.04.
Excellent images
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 5:23 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Just some tests for April 8th
- Replies: 28
- Views: 572
Re: Just some tests for April 8th
Hi, Today white light shows two more quite big spot areas. This is a screenshot from my live stream at the moment. Player One Saturn-M at binning 2 with 3.5ms exposure time and gain 250 on a Takahashi FS-78 at 882mm focal length using a Canon 1.4X extender H-alpha is taken with a Lumenera Infinity 2...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 4:55 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: Two shots session 05.04.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 382
Re: Two shots session 05.04.
WOW, excellent.
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 4:54 pm
- Forum: SPoD Archive
- Topic: The Analemma. 1st April 2023 - 31st March 2024
- Replies: 15
- Views: 142
Re: The Analemma. 1st April 2023 - 31st March 2024
Hi Nic,
Excellent job. I guess you covered the hole and opened it for a short period in order to get this?
Excellent job. I guess you covered the hole and opened it for a short period in order to get this?
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 4:54 pm
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: The Analemma. 1st April 2023 - 31st March 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 454
Re: The Analemma. 1st April 2023 - 31st March 2024
Hi Nic,
Excellent job. I guess you covered the hole and opened it for a short period in order to get this?
Excellent job. I guess you covered the hole and opened it for a short period in order to get this?
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 4:41 pm
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: What about your weather for the Eclipse ?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 169
Re: What about your weather for the Eclipse ?
Hi Alexandra,
I have a friend who is going to Melchor Muzquiz in the state of Coahuila, North Mexico, where the totality is 4m29s and the weather forecast looks exactly as you said. They rented a house there.
I have a friend who is going to Melchor Muzquiz in the state of Coahuila, North Mexico, where the totality is 4m29s and the weather forecast looks exactly as you said. They rented a house there.
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 4:09 pm
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: What about your weather for the Eclipse ?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 169
Re: What about your weather for the Eclipse ?
32 degrees! :shock: At least it doesn't say wall to wall sunshine for Sunday and Tuesday and cloudy on Monday, if it were in the UK the forecast would be like that. Hopefully you should have a reasonably good chance. Alexandra Well, I still remember October 14 2023... I would say, let us stop talki...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 3:27 am
- Forum: This is SolarChat !!
- Topic: April 4 2024 K-Line Imaging Session.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 342
Re: April 4 2024 K-Line Imaging Session.
Well done James
What additional filter do you have in the white light image as you name it 393.3nm?
What additional filter do you have in the white light image as you name it 393.3nm?
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:16 am
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: What about your weather for the Eclipse ?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 169
Re: What about your weather for the Eclipse ?
I have two choices. I can drive up to my hometown 3 hours away and stay with my sister in Ashland, OH where they get over 3 minutes of totality or stay down here and drive 45 minutes and get over 3 minutes of totality and the forecast keeps flipping back and forth as to which one is better. At this...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 5:47 pm
- Forum: Total Solar Eclipse April 8 2024
- Topic: What about your weather for the Eclipse ?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 169
What about your weather for the Eclipse ?
Hi, I have been following the weather since more then 14 days. Today I am looking at 5 different weather forecast sites and the consensus is like below and since 3 days the forecast has been like see screenshot from Meteoblue below :o The clouds during the eclipse will make my videos look more drama...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 5:25 pm
- Forum: SPoD Archive
- Topic: April 3rd, 2024 FD in Ha
- Replies: 11
- Views: 147
Re: April 3rd, 2024 FD in Ha
Nice disk. As Mark mentioned, move the disk around in the FOV to find the best overall tuning. It appears in this shot that the sweet spot is to bring the disk down a bit lower in this FOV. The typical recommendation is to first tune your main etalon, then add the DS unit and tune that one. You can...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 4:43 pm
- Forum: Solar Radio, Magnetometry and Spectroscopy
- Topic: Anyone in for a CNCed Aluminium Sol'Ex housing?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 238
Re: Anyone in for a CNCed Aluminium Sol'Ex housing?
Hi,
US $ 200,00 is a good price. I would recommend you anodize all parts for better durability over the years. Anodize in natural color. Black is a bad idea due to heat.
Well done.
US $ 200,00 is a good price. I would recommend you anodize all parts for better durability over the years. Anodize in natural color. Black is a bad idea due to heat.
Well done.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: Sunlit Earth
- Topic: Out with my Seestar 3/29/2024
- Replies: 7
- Views: 222
Re: Out with my Seestar 3/29/2024
Hi Warren,
Excellent images
Excellent images