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Great choices Marcello :bow

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Re: November Solar Challenge

Post by Oak »

Hi All,

Here is my first H-alpha image taken July 31 2021 with a quark, ST80 (60mm aperture), and an ancient olympus microscope color camera. I had to capture in NIH ImageJ and write macros to debayer the image because the drivers weren’t working correctly…

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And here’s my current favorite taken on Sept 8th 2022 with a 127mm f9.4, quark+Lunt 40mm double stack and ZWO ASI174 monochrome camera.

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An excellent addition Derek.

These show a significant improvement in resolution and image quality!!!

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Takahashi EM400 Mount carrying:
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Planetary Work - SBIG CFW10, ASI462MM

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WL, G-Band & CaK Setup: Lunt Wedge & Lunt B1800CaK, Baader K-Line and Altair 2nm G-Band filter
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Re: November Solar Challenge

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The color camera captures the natural Ha color wonderfully. It's something familiar to every visual solar observer. The second image is several steps beyond the first. Nice near natural coloration too!

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Re: November Solar Challenge

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Howdy, My name is Peter and I live in Queensland, Australia.

This is my first post on SolarChat and I thought the November Solar Challenge is as as good a place as any to start!

So here is my first Solar image of a hedgerow Prominence from July 4th 2020 with my single stack Lunt 60mm and ZWO 120MM.
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A more recent inverted image taken on November 19th this year with my single stack Lunt 80mm and ZWO 432MM.
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I have had great mentoring from several members whom I see are also here on SolarChat (thank you big time!) with my main interest in Solar animations, you can see some of them on my Astrobin page below.

I am really looking forward to being part of and contributing this forum as we head to the next Solar Max.

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Fantastic!! a very warm and sunny welcome Peter :hamster: :hamster:

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Montana wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 7:31 am Fantastic!! a very warm and sunny welcome Peter :hamster: :hamster:

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Thanks so very much Alexandra, and yes very sunny and warming up here as we head into our Summer!


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Hey Peter, welcome to another great forum!


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Re: November Solar Challenge

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Peter,
Those prominences look really good in your image. Looking back at my observational records I recorded them as fairly faint visually.

Welcome to SolarChat!

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Welcome to the forum Peter and great to see your addition tot eh challenge :bow

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Re: November Solar Challenge

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Hello everybody: this turned out to be a great thread ! Sorry for coming late to the party...

First is one of my solar images taken with a Solarmax II 60mm BF5 mounted on a simple photographic tripod. The camera was an ASI120MM: clearly I could not keep the disk in the center of the frame :lol: Oh well ! I was very proud of it as it was one of the first times I was able to capture the sun AND some of its features. Taken March 2014.

The second one is a closeup of AR12786: hopefully shows I made some progress since 2014. This was taken in 2020 with the HaT 203mm scope at f/27 with a Quark combo.

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Great shots Franco :bow

Nice to see your progression over the years...your work is top notch !!!

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A real progress Franco, like a professional ...


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Hello everyone
I'll try to jump into the last car :)
My experience is small - about a year.

Image09.04.21 by Ivan Sirotin, on Flickr


ImageFD_11.07.22_flare С3.5 by Ivan Sirotin, on Flickr

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Nice Ivan!


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WoW, Ivan. You image VERY well. You use your little Lunt50 to maximum effect.


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Great shots, Ivan. Love that full disk !

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Superb shots Ivan :bow

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