I had first light on a new solar setup yesterday and wanted to share the first image. I was only able to get one 30-second capture before clouds rolled in – and this before I could really adjust the tilt adapter or capture settings as I would have liked. The result is better than I had hoped given the conditions. These are taken with a Quark+Lunt 40mm double stack in a 127mm/1200 (2-inch 35nm H-alpha filter as ERF). Exposures are 6ms, 60fps, with high gain using a camera with 4.8um pixels at f/39.5. Clearly, lots to optimize, but that should be enjoyable. Visually, it was also pretty awesome.
Best,
Derek
B&W:
Color:
After a 300 pixel bandpass filter to remove some banding:
