Sunday sunshine 12th May
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 11:39 am
Sorry it is late but not been able to get on Flickr for a few days?
Sunday morning I imaged from 9-12 and actually the seeing got better towards midday which is unusual. This was due to the jestream moving out of the way.
I started with the C11 / Baader solar film (ND3.8) / Continuum and UV/IR filter / 5x Powermate and ASI174. I took several really lovely videos to watch where I can see nice detail. Ones which make you go ooooooh. However none will stack, they all give flat blurred images even stacking only 1%. So I extracted single frames instead and just picked one to process and I like it much better. So there must be more to stacking than meets the eye. I have seen far worse videos produced by Emil and he produced amazing stacks from what I call poor quality video. I think one day we need to have a UK image processing conference where we all get together and really learn all the ins and outs of these programs. Like gaming software giants do, we need an imaging jam!
Frame 813 single frame Sun_095036_12_05_2019 by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
I then moved on to the trusty Solarscope DSF100 + the 3x telecentric and the ASI174. The Grasshopper is still not back from the hospital, it returned from Canada 2 weeks ago but is currently having a holiday trip round England. It might soon get back home this week (I live in hope), I miss him. The Grasshopper is much nicer to use with the Solarscope.
Sun_110725_12_05_2019 by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
2019-05-12 AR12740 by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
and a full disc with the 1.6x Barlow
2019-05-12 Full solar disc f colour by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
2019-05-12 Full solar disc by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
for full resolution you need to click on the link then click on the image to magnify.
Thanks for looking
Alexandra
Sunday morning I imaged from 9-12 and actually the seeing got better towards midday which is unusual. This was due to the jestream moving out of the way.
I started with the C11 / Baader solar film (ND3.8) / Continuum and UV/IR filter / 5x Powermate and ASI174. I took several really lovely videos to watch where I can see nice detail. Ones which make you go ooooooh. However none will stack, they all give flat blurred images even stacking only 1%. So I extracted single frames instead and just picked one to process and I like it much better. So there must be more to stacking than meets the eye. I have seen far worse videos produced by Emil and he produced amazing stacks from what I call poor quality video. I think one day we need to have a UK image processing conference where we all get together and really learn all the ins and outs of these programs. Like gaming software giants do, we need an imaging jam!
Frame 813 single frame Sun_095036_12_05_2019 by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
I then moved on to the trusty Solarscope DSF100 + the 3x telecentric and the ASI174. The Grasshopper is still not back from the hospital, it returned from Canada 2 weeks ago but is currently having a holiday trip round England. It might soon get back home this week (I live in hope), I miss him. The Grasshopper is much nicer to use with the Solarscope.
Sun_110725_12_05_2019 by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
2019-05-12 AR12740 by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
and a full disc with the 1.6x Barlow
2019-05-12 Full solar disc f colour by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
2019-05-12 Full solar disc by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
for full resolution you need to click on the link then click on the image to magnify.
Thanks for looking
Alexandra