Other than that, the views are astonishing, I finally understand what a good etalon is and how convenient is a dedicated solar scope.
Now for the problem. I was always a visual guy and AP did not intrigue me, although solar was intriguing as it is so dynamic and I often wish to share what I see. A friend, who does only AP, was trying to convert me for years to the dark side, and finally managed to dump his ASI 120 mono 'to play with' while I am in countryside for a couple of days. I made a mistake and accepted.
What I have found out was that doing Ha AP was simple (I watch mono, switch to bino, then decide I will make a quick acquisition) and then the fun begins. Quite addictive and fits into my observing rhythm, it is not like you have 7hrs exposition at a dark site and abandon visual. He also dumped PIPP, Autostakkert and Registax on me and...that is it. I never did any of this stuff.
So I played, realized that focusing on prom is more difficult, that gains and exp on surface and proms are so apart, that I need to go darker, that he forgot to unlock full speed on the camera in max mode, that I should stack less images, etc. Also I just now realize that PM2.5 and this configuration do not play well because of NR and because of the oversampling (had to learn what that is).
Below are a couple of my firsts tries, that huge prom in varous stages and then some ARs and a flare today. I would most appreciate any suggestions you have - what should I pay attention to? Is this camera adequate long term, should I be aiming for something with smaller pixels? I use alt-az mounts exclusively (AZGti and Evolution, soon to acquire Rowan 100), my other scope suitable for some play on say Moon is Tak 100 (f/7.4). Any particular processing tricks? I do PIPP, ask it to halve the number of frames (I usually take 600-1000, but my FPS was usually below 30 when using full res because camera was capped) then go to Autostakkert, get as many stabilizing points, analyze and dump everthing but the best bit. Then play in Registaxx although I do not know what a particular wavelet does.
