h-alpha, January 16th, 2021

[LTHB]

For a few minutes this afternoon the cloud cover was thinning enough to capture a couple of videos, however through passing clouds. After all stacking yielded two images that were a bit unevenly illuminated, but good enough to process further, a disk and a close-up of the southern part.





I also used these videos to try out PlanetarySystemStacker, a new stacking software that seems quite good to me, probably at least on a par with Autostakkert: https://github.com/Rolf-Hempel/PlanetarySystemStacker (There is also a thread on CN about it.)
After this quick test I think it may even give a bit better results for parts of the solar surface with low contrast (e.g. the rim of the disk), but I've only used it for a few images so far. I'll try it out some more as soon as the weather allows.

Kind regards,

Frank

[Stardust5858]

Brilliant thanks for sharing and the head's up on the stacking software. I'll give it a try.

[EGRAY_OBSERVATORY]

Thank you Frank for your images and the new software web-link which will be trialled soon

Terry

[Carbon60]

Nice southern portion, Frank. Shows the magnetically disturbed region and filaments very well.

Stu.

[marktownley]

Looks good Frank, we both took the same shots yesterday.

[ffellah]

Good images Frank, thank you

Franco

[Montana]

Fantastic shots and great to hear about the new stacking software, it is always good to have an alternative when one fails



Alexandra

[eroel]

Frank:
It looks we are all fighting clouds, hope to get some gaps today, though I don´t think so it is clouded all over.
You got some nice images anyway.
Best wishes,
Eric.

[LTHB]

Thanks, folks!

I've played a little more with PlanetarySystemStacker in the meantime and I am quite impressed. It stacks quite good, and it also has sharpening tools similar to Registax, but more user-friendly. The only feature I am missing is LR deconvolution.

Frank

[yltansg]

Great shots, Frank and thanks for the info on the new software. Looks promising.

Alfred

[MapleRidge]

Great catch Frank!!!

Brian

[MAURITS]

Well done Frank.

[marios i.]

Beautiful!