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First light solar film white light

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My Baader solar film arrived, I just had to try it out.

I think I will be breaking this out when I have excellent seeing conditions in the future.
C8 Baader solar film and with no Baader Continuum Filter (sold out everywhere), I grabbed a old orion green filter and and UV/IR cut off (better then nothing).
Any recommendations on max length of time for capture runs to avoid surface blurs at this focal length and greater?
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Rich,

The green filters work nearly as good as the Baader 540nm filters do. And I see granules!! What scope did you use?

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DeepSolar64 wrote: Sun Sep 25, 2022 2:43 am Rich,

The green filters work nearly as good as the Baader 540nm filters do. And I see granules!! What scope did you use?

James

Celestron C8, I will have to try a powermate with it.


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A C8. Yep, that's enough aperture to easily do it! :-)


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Good first light!

Surface blur won't be an issue unless the capture time is in the minutes. Seeing and exposure time are more likely to be the culprits.


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I can see some nice details Rich.


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This is fabulous!!! well done :bow :hamster: I would try and back off in the sharpening though, I bet you reveal more fine detail if you use less sharpening :)

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Montana wrote: Sun Sep 25, 2022 2:35 pm This is fabulous!!! well done :bow :hamster: I would try and back off in the sharpening though, I bet you reveal more fine detail if you use less sharpening :)

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I have a tendency to do over sharpen, it's a bad habit and hard to break at times. I will try harder....


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marktownley wrote: Sun Sep 25, 2022 6:23 am Good first light!

Surface blur won't be an issue unless the capture time is in the minutes. Seeing and exposure time are more likely to be the culprits.
Thanks, just what I was looking for.
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