Calcium Sun 8th August
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Calcium Sun 8th August
Hi Everyone.
Been a bit busy of late, have been stopping at my parents house to help out with some chores that needed doing - lots of gardening, putting fences in, moving furniture around etc - they're getting on a bit now and need help with this sort of stuff. Anyway, jobs done and i'm back at home now and with good weather forecast I was keen to do a bit of solar, and to also try out my new laptop (that i've finally got around to buying) specifically for the purpose of imaging - my old laptop was shy on ram, memory and processing speed; the new one is a beast and AS3 chews through video files in no time. The old laptop was definitely a bottle neck.
My session today was eaten into, as I forgot how long it takes to download and configure everything, so started a little later than would like, and the school boy error as my 12v battery for the mount ran out of juice pretty much minutes after the 20v secondary battery I use for the laptop also ran flat, hey ho!
Anyway, it was a calcium day, and with plenty of storage space available on the laptop I was able to capture plenty of frames with a larger aperture knowing lucky imaging would prevail!
First off the full disk, ED80 stopped down to 60mm with the zwo183mm camera.
CaK-FD-60mm-f10-zwo183mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Some closer views with 100mm f19 with the zwo290mm...
Ar13076-CaK-100mm-f19-zwo290mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar13074-CaK-100mm-f19-zwo290mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar13071-Cak-100mm-f19-zwo290mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
And where the seeing wasn't being as nice, 80mm f15 with the zwo183mm
departing-active-regions-CaK-80mm-f15-zwo183mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
plage-CaK-80mm-f15-zwo183mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Quite pleased with how these came out as the sky was quite hazy at times with contrails spreading out across the sky. Hopefully tuesday, with charged batteries and configured software should allow time for a bit more imaging.
Hope you like these
Mark
Been a bit busy of late, have been stopping at my parents house to help out with some chores that needed doing - lots of gardening, putting fences in, moving furniture around etc - they're getting on a bit now and need help with this sort of stuff. Anyway, jobs done and i'm back at home now and with good weather forecast I was keen to do a bit of solar, and to also try out my new laptop (that i've finally got around to buying) specifically for the purpose of imaging - my old laptop was shy on ram, memory and processing speed; the new one is a beast and AS3 chews through video files in no time. The old laptop was definitely a bottle neck.
My session today was eaten into, as I forgot how long it takes to download and configure everything, so started a little later than would like, and the school boy error as my 12v battery for the mount ran out of juice pretty much minutes after the 20v secondary battery I use for the laptop also ran flat, hey ho!
Anyway, it was a calcium day, and with plenty of storage space available on the laptop I was able to capture plenty of frames with a larger aperture knowing lucky imaging would prevail!
First off the full disk, ED80 stopped down to 60mm with the zwo183mm camera.
CaK-FD-60mm-f10-zwo183mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Some closer views with 100mm f19 with the zwo290mm...
Ar13076-CaK-100mm-f19-zwo290mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar13074-CaK-100mm-f19-zwo290mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar13071-Cak-100mm-f19-zwo290mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
And where the seeing wasn't being as nice, 80mm f15 with the zwo183mm
departing-active-regions-CaK-80mm-f15-zwo183mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
plage-CaK-80mm-f15-zwo183mm by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Quite pleased with how these came out as the sky was quite hazy at times with contrails spreading out across the sky. Hopefully tuesday, with charged batteries and configured software should allow time for a bit more imaging.
Hope you like these
Mark
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Re: Calcium Sun 8th August
Wonderful CaK images Mark! Always a pleasure to see your latest work.
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Re: Calcium Sun 8th August
Great images Mark... at least your computer's ready for next time!
Nic
PS Tried my Lunt CaK 1200 for the first time today it was tons better than I imagined, couldn't believe my eyes!
Nic
PS Tried my Lunt CaK 1200 for the first time today it was tons better than I imagined, couldn't believe my eyes!
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Re: Calcium Sun 8th August
Excellent images in CaK, Mark. Also the close ups came out really well, the penumbras are very well defined. Happy to hear about your new, breaking the speed barrier laptop: that helps a lot. Nic: congrats on your new CaK module, you will have a lot of fun with it...
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Thanks everyone for your kind words.
Looking forward to seeing results from your new CaK module Nic, your ED80 is pretty much optically perfect at 393nm when stopped down to 60mm.
Looking forward to seeing results from your new CaK module Nic, your ED80 is pretty much optically perfect at 393nm when stopped down to 60mm.
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Re: Calcium Sun 8th August
Excellent CaK images, Mark!
Having a fast computer is really valuable for both image capture and processing.
What's the spec on your new computer?
Best regards,
Arne
Having a fast computer is really valuable for both image capture and processing.
What's the spec on your new computer?
Best regards,
Arne
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It's an i7, 2.8Ghz processor, 64Gb Ram, 2Tb SSD. AS3 loves all the ram, and just chews through the files with lightning speedarnedanielsen wrote: ↑Mon Aug 08, 2022 8:51 pm Having a fast computer is really valuable for both image capture and processing.
What's the spec on your new computer?
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Re: Calcium Sun 8th August
Mark,
I always enjoy your CaK work. You are good at it and it is something as of yet I cannot do.
That’s a really nice spec’d out computer. Windows 11 I presume?
James
I always enjoy your CaK work. You are good at it and it is something as of yet I cannot do.
That’s a really nice spec’d out computer. Windows 11 I presume?
James
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Despite the teething problems your results are superb.
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Certainly is.
Thanks for all the likes and comments guys!
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Re: Calcium Sun 8th August
Great to see your lovely CaK Mark, it looks like you are going to have a superb week and the computer will be full
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Re: Calcium Sun 8th August
Excellent CaK images, Mark. Your computer sounds awesome for this kind of work. Nice one.
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Great shots Mark! I did the same thing getting a new laptop, it’s amazing the difference it makes!
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Thanks y'all!
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