One thing that I am finding completely different is the post processing with single stack compared to double stack; I had tried my usual routine and found this to be completely unsuitable, however, spending sometime last night with a bottle of red and CS4 and my creative approach was soon reawakened, I think I have the basis of a single stack routine, that, give me a lil' time to refine and will get up as a tutorial...
It's a real dilemma with the poor weather we're having this april here in the UK, I wanted to (and did for a while) just look through the eyepeice, mouth open, ooo-ing and ahh-ing to myself at the 100mm views, however i'm concious while i'm doing this clouds are fast bubbling up and encroaching, and today was no excepption so I sacrficed visual views to get some imaging instead...
I was straight to the the huge prom that has graced us for the last couple of days around ARs 11462 & 11463 and it didn't fail to impress:
AR11462 63 by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Moments after capturing it I noticed the histogram on IC Capture was being pinched in from either side and I could see the first signs of haze drifting across the image on the laptop screen - despite the sky being clear from a naked eye point of view. I decided to carry on regardless, and while the following images are lacking in a bit of contrast I think they're still worth seeing...
AR11466 by Mark Townley, on Flickr
AR11465 by Mark Townley, on Flickr
AR11460 by Mark Townley, on Flickr
These were all taken with 100mm PST mod @ f10, DMK31, stacked in avistack2 post processing in CS4.
I really am looking forward to using this setup under properly clear skies and with time on my hands so everything isn't a rush...
Hope you like these, there's more to come from this afternoon of the liftoff of the huge prom, just processing now.
Mark
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