May 13 2023 Imaging Session!

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May 13 2023 Imaging Session!

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Today I imaged between 15:45 to 16:30 UTC. The skies were partly cloudy with the seeing below average. The temperature was a quite warm 76F ( 24.4C ) I used my Coronado SolarMax II 90 in single stack for Ha chromosphere and my Celestron 102 for 540nm photosphere imaging. I used my ZWO ASI178MM camera with my Windows 8.1 laptop. Image acquisition was done using SharpCap and stacking was done in AVIstack. PhotoShop CC2020 and GIMP is used in editing and processing.

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Stacking helps Vs single frame snapshots in less than good seeing but sometimes I cannot get my images to line up though most do if I keep the videos small up to 350 frames. But even if they don't line up I can manually go through the frames and find the sharpest ones. When doing freehand snapshots at the scope it's a bit of a crap shoot. A bit of luck by chance to get one that is sharp. When a single frame from a stack is saved in AVIstack it has Framesel in the file name. What keeps my vids so short is my manual mount. It's for visual use! No tracking.

It's been a very busy day for me and I am up really late processing. I could never do this on a workday!

Anyway, here they are. I have included a KSO CaK image to show where the active regions are and because I cannot do CaK. :-(

Goodnight.

James


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Re: May 13 2023 Imaging Sseeion!

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Well done, thanks for sharing.

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Those came out great James, nice sharp details.


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Beautiful images all, James. The SM90 is a great scope: the WL images came out really well too.

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Great images James :)


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Beautiful detailed images James, lovely colored.


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Very lovely session, James!!

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Thanks and welcomes, everyone. I think they would have turned out better if the seeing would had been better. Still it was fun. Today is overcast so far. It looks like rain. My SUNoculars are at the ready though in case a quick view presents itself.


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Terrific images!
I feel your sleepiness - my wife and I were also up very late last night processing images. The Photoshop/PixInsight/etc black hole!

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James:
Super images, clean and crisp ones most of them.
Thanks for sharing your work.
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Great work James!

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Kevin,
Mine fell into the PS GIMP hole!! :lol: I was so tired, went to bed at 4:00am local time. I woke up this morning and found numerous spelling errors in my post I had to correct. ugh...

Thanks and you are welcome, Eric and Arne.

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Thanks Aaron.


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Excellent images


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rsfoto wrote: Mon May 15, 2023 5:27 pm Excellent images
Thanks Rainer. That's a compliment considering your skill level. :bow


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This is a lovely set James!


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Thanks Mr. Townley.


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