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highqe

Sadly the link is blocked by my anti virus software as an un safe link, so I will have to take you guys word for how nice it is :( Alexandra You might want to use a different browser. Google has unilaterally declared all Http sites to be "unsafe"....and trying to force basic content build...

highqe

Thanks for the very kind comments.

highqe

Haven't done much for a time.

Here's today's installment.

http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery623.html

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highqe

Peter, WoW, you have a perfect Ha disc here complete with prominences. I am humbled by your imaging and processing skills. Your AP130 does excellent as well using what must be excellent SolarMax 90 etalons. Are those Meade etalons or pre-Meade ones? What camera do you use? Like Rainer's images your...

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Not great seeing this morning, but it was finally clear skies for a change.

Some nice prom activity for the end of the month.

Image link here
http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery610.html

highqe

Clear mornings have returned to my neck of the woods.
The large prom making all the headlines is showing up well.

Image link here
http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery607.html

highqe

Average conditions this morning, taken before the storms clouds rolled in.

Image link here
http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery605.html

highqe

Good conditions this morning.

Image link below

http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery604.html

highqe

Just average conditions this morning. Nice to see activity
building.

Image link here
http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery600.html

highqe

Thanks guys.

highqe

Nice conditions this morning

Image link here
http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery599.html

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Australia Day (January 26th) H-alpha full disk.

Image link here
http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery596.html

highqe

Thanks for the kind comments. As for the colour, I use a gradient adjustment layer in Photoshop to map a deep red though orange to white
onto the original grey-scale image data (the QHY533M is a mono camera). Dealer's choice on what colours you like and how steep you make the gradient.

highqe

Nice blue sky this morning, but average seeing.

All the recent interesting activity looks to be slowly rotating out of view.

Image link here
http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery595.html

highqe

Nice blue sky this morning, but average seeing.

All the recent interesting activity looks to be slowly rotating out of view.

Image link here
http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery595.html

highqe

Thanks one and all for your positive comments.
The APOD (for an earlier image) was a nice surprise.
The weather here has set in (rain), so that's it from me for a for a few days.

highqe

Average seeing this morning but with some extended blue sky
which allowed a few imaging runs.

Some nice surface features but fairly quiet on the prom front.

Image link here
http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery594.html

highqe

Lots of convective cloud made seeing pretty average this morning
but with enough holes between them to run a few captures.

A good deal of activity on the Sun at the moment!

Image link here
http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery592.html

highqe

Thanks one and all for your kind comments. Getting another SPOD was cool.

highqe

Caught this morning in average seeing, the large prom developed nicely

Image link here

http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery591.html

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Caught this morning in average seeing, the large prom developed nicely

Image link here

http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery591.html

highqe

Thanks. Sadly no reprise image this morning....looks like rain here for the next few days.

highqe

Quite good seeing this morning.

Image link here
http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery589.html

highqe

Good conditions this morning

image link here
http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery586.html

highqe

Ta. I am using a pre-Meade i.e. Lunt SM90 (not tunable) and a post Meade 90mm (tunable) in the double stack. Indeed the Meade eatlon sadly does not have the same contrast as the Lunt. That said, I've found front mounted etalons have very even illumination across a wide field compared to rear mounted...

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A little foggy here this morning, but burned off to a blue
sky by mid morning. Fairly good seeing as a result

Image link here
http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery585.html

highqe

Today's Ha Sol but with a new camera adapter that
now allows the Sun's image to almost completely
fill the sensor's area.

image link here
http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery584.html

highqe

Thanks for the replies. I suspect my web provider might support https, but seeing as we are looking at pretty pictures and not conducting any sort of
online transaction, that needs to be secure, I'll likely keep with the link format for now.

highqe

Today's H-alpha sun

http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery582.html

highqe

Started my imaging run a little late today, hence the seeing was not great,
but looks like Sol is starting to put on a show.

Image link here
http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery578.html

highqe

My own family fled Vilnius due the Russians (and Nazi's) and ended up half a world away...one wonders what it will take
to finally teach the soviets that their actions are reprehensible and will not be tolerated.

Excellent news, and wishing you all the best!

highqe

My most recent Ha disk is here.

http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery577.html

Unfortunately observations for the next week or so look unlikely due an extensive weather system descending on the Australian
east cost.

highqe

Finally some acceptable seeing this morning, arriving with the Sun showing some
nice prom activity.

Image link here
http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery576.html

highqe

Thank you for the positive feedback. And a SPOD too boot :D FYI the system I am using is an original Coronado SM90 plus Meade tunable SM90 and BF30 (Beloptik ITF....doesn't "rust" and has a much tighter bandwidth, reasonably priced...highly recommended! ) AP130GTX BARCON and QHY533M. Depen...

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Ta. Indeed, I'm located at the southern edge of Sydney.

Weather here has been a tragedy until fairly recently....but I'll take rain over the bushfires any day

highqe

Ta. Indeed, I'm located at the southern edge of Sydney.

Weather here has been a tragedy until fairly recently....but I'll take rain over the bushfires any day

highqe

Variable seeing here this morning, but vastly better than a few days ago.

Image link here
http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery575.html

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Variable seeing here this morning, but vastly better than a few days ago.

Image link here
http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery575.html

highqe

Today's Ha disk. Average seeing.

http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery574.html

highqe

Thanks. Looks like I'll be retiring my 9Mp Point Grey/FLIR camera due the new QHY533m having a square format 1" sensor, almost double the frame rate, with no read-out artifacts, that you typically get with brighter objects and a CCD (similar to blooming). The cooled sensor is also a plus. The P...

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Today's H-alpha sun. Seeing was not great, due convective cloud that is fairly typical of my neck of the woods (Sydney)
this time of year.

Image link here:
http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery573.html

highqe

Thanks guys, I'll try Darrin's email.

highqe

I'd appreciate it if anyone can advise me of the thread pitch and diameter of the Takahashi FSQ106 EDXIII objective cell, with the view to making a screw in adapter for a Coronado SM90.....unfortunately precise parts do not have this on their data-base. Alternatively a link to a suitable commercial ...

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What can I say? Got lucky with this one

http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery361.html

highqe

Thanks for the positive feedback.

Cheers
Peter

highqe

I'm enjoying the run of fine weather.

Seeing was good this morning. Lots of spickules, prom and edge details

http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery337.html

Cheers
Peter

highqe

Carbon60 wrote:Top shot, Peter.

Is this a mosaic?

Stu

Thanks Stu...Officially yes, but just 2 panes.

highqe

Another Full disk installment

Seeing was slightly better than average this morning.

http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery336.html

Cheers
Peter

highqe

Thanks for the feedback. It's a single exposure, but I run my PGR 6.0mp camera in 16bit, gamma off. PGR's internal gamma look-up-table is not good. It causes posterization /banding in low contrast areas, hence I'm effectively shooting in RAW and stretching the data later. The downside to 16bit is th...

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Several weather fronts passing through the Sydney region, hence the seeing was very average,
that said, we had a clear window late morning.

http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery335.html

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