We upgraded our Calcium SHG in a few ways. First, we attached a 80mm f6 triplet APO to try for a bit more spatial resolution. Next, we installed a 2400 l/mm diffraction grating to get more spectral resolution. Everything else was essentially the same as our previous Calcium imaging run (see viewtopic.php?t=36730). Here is how the setup looks (without the shroud we put over it to block out ambient light).
Once all the focusing is set, we retreat indoors and run things via Remote Desktop. Below is a screenshot of the FireCapture and EqMod controller we use for image capture and scanning. The actual acquisition parameters are visible in the screenshot. Since the slit is oriented quite precisely in RA (due to the grating being mounted on a dovetail bar), the ROI shown is a line in the E-W direction (probably across the active region just above the equator). Scanning is done is DEC, so the slit traverses N-S for a scan, the recording is stopped; restarted and then the slit travels S-N in the next scan (hence the feature in our software to do a "mirror flip" in the reconstruction).
Here is the Calcium H image we created using our v3.4 software, AS3, imppg and Photoshop. The stacking was done from the best 25% of 58 SHG images, so a large amount of data (around 140 GB). Note that the imaging was done between 15:00 and 15:30 UTC and I was able to get the image processed by the evening -- so a relatively quick turnaround.
There is a bit of a focus issue such that the left side is sharp but the right side is a bit out of focus. This I think was because I chose to focus the telescope on the left side of the Sun since that was where there was more structure to focus on (see the screenshot of the FireCapture ROI). There must be some optical tilt somewhere (this was the first attempt with this setup). It looks like there are some edge effects at the North and South rim. This looks like a stacking problem (and maybe incorrect imppg usage?).
I should mention that for the stacking, I used images where there was no transversalium removal done. The lithographic slit is almost without any structure and it was cleaned well before assembly. The transversalium removal function does introduce some slight artefacts and I found that with stacking, the need for their removal in the input images is unnecessary.
It's interesting to compare this image to H-alpha etalon and CaK filter images taken on the same day and around the same time (the afternoon of July 7): see viewtopic.php?t=36959. I've taken the great H-alpha and CaK images from Arne and made a mosaic with our CaH SHG image so it's easier to see where there are similarities and differences.
CaH SHG 80mm f6 stacked image
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Re: CaH SHG 80mm f6 stacked image
Oh my!! what a breath taking image you should be very proud of all your hard work
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Really impressive to see these details in CaH. This set up is the holy grail for Ca imaging
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Re: CaH SHG 80mm f6 stacked image
One of the best Ca K images I seen taken with a SHG. The filaments have very nice contrast.
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Very impressive indeed Douglas
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