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Full Disk 2019-12-17

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Still far from perfect, but slowly getting there.
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Re: Full Disk 2019-12-17

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Hi Jochen,

Starting to look good. What have you done so far ?

Is it a double stacked or single ?


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rsfoto wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 3:25 pm Hi Jochen,

Starting to look good. What have you done so far ?

Is it a double stacked or single ?
Thanks Rainer. I think my main issue before was my pressure tuner not being sealed properly. I added some grease to the threads and immediately saw a huge improvement today. Other than that, practice makes perfect. But pretty happy with how today’s session turned out.

It’s a single stack LS50.


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Re: Full Disk 2019-12-17

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Looking good, just work on that tuning to get an even disk Jochem


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Re: Full Disk 2019-12-17

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Well done, good start.


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Thanks Mark/Maurits.

Tomorrow's supposed to be a beautiful sunny day here in Belgium, so plenty of time to get some more practice in.


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Re: Full Disk 2019-12-17

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Nice shot!


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Re: Full Disk 2019-12-17

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It's coming on nicely Jochen, but like Mark said, keep working on the tuning, look for the darkest contrast and then you know you are on band
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Thanks Salvo/Alexandra.


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Re: Full Disk 2019-12-17

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Hi Jochen...

Very nice first set of images...well done!!!

As others mentioned some fine tuning will help enhance he contrast and even the disk out. Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of active regions or filaments to experiment on.

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Re: Full Disk 2019-12-17

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Good job, Jochen!

To tease the max resolution out of these 50 mm, I suggest you make a 2x2 mosaic. I have similar pixel pitch (3.75 µm) to yours, and such mosaics work very well for me with a 2x Barlow's lens element screwed directly into camera's nosepiece (giving ~1.6x), e.g.:

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Re: Full Disk 2019-12-17

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Jochen.
Very nice and clean FD´s for a 50mm aperture, probably you can improve your fine tuning adjustments.
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Thanks for the feedback/tips everyone.
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Re: Full Disk 2019-12-17

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GreatAttractor wrote: Wed Dec 18, 2019 3:45 pm Good job, Jochen!

To tease the max resolution out of these 50 mm, I suggest you make a 2x2 mosaic. I have similar pixel pitch (3.75 µm) to yours, and such mosaics work very well for me with a 2x Barlow's lens element screwed directly into camera's nosepiece (giving ~1.6x), e.g.:

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A mosaic is definitely something I'm aiming towards doing as well. But I want to make sure I get the single images perfected first (the whole walk before you run thing :) ).

Also, absolutely amazing image you linked there. Quite a spectacular result for such a modest little telescope.


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Re: Full Disk 2019-12-17

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Doing well Jochen.


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