AR2960 and AR2965 taken yesterday 2022.03.12

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AR2960 and AR2965 taken yesterday 2022.03.12

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Despite a rather cloudless sky, it was hazy. The low transparency seems to affect the h-alpha more than white light.

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Welcome to the forum Michael! These are lovely images from the big TMB and Lunt. Have you got some pics of your setup to share?


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Wonderful images Michael!


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Oh WOW :shock: :bow :bow a very warm and sunny welcome :hamster:

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Some of the best images ever Michael.
Colouring is perfect and showing such fine detail

Thanks for sharing
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Wonderful WL images Michael!


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The WL images are fantastic!


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Welcome, Michael. Fantastic debut images.

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Welcome on the forum Michael. Great start !

I was just wondering whether you could try a version with less contrast. On my LCD screen (calibrated), the highlights look a bit high.


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Hi Michael really good images.

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Thanks everyone.

Here are my setup for both the white light and h-alpha:
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christian viladrich wrote: Sun Mar 13, 2022 9:32 pm Welcome on the forum Michael. Great start !

I was just wondering whether you could try a version with less contrast. On my LCD screen (calibrated), the highlights look a bit high.
Hi Christian, now that you mention it, I have a look at the histogram and the white point is indeed clipped.

Here is a revised version. Hopefully it's better.
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EGRAY_OBSERVATORY wrote: Sun Mar 13, 2022 4:14 pm Some of the best images ever Michael.
Colouring is perfect and showing such fine detail

Thanks for sharing
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Thanks Terry.

My best white light image was taken on Jul 1, 2021, which was featured on APOD the next day. That was my first APOD, and the only one so far. Since then, I'm yet to get any better result. The closest one was from Dec 26, 2021.

I've seen quite a few on Facebook who took better white light images with 8" refractor. My biggest constraints are the heat load since I don't use an ERF, and the older, slower camera with relatively large pixel size.


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Michael,
The resolution of the 540nm image is impressive. The granulation and sunspot detail is great!!

You are located in Asia. What country?

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