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November Solar Challenge

Post by Montana »

I've had two identical requests for this month for the solar challenge, so great minds must think alike :D I'm always happy to accept requests so if you have one please let me know.

This month the challenge is to post 2 pictures (only 2 allowed).

The first being your absolute first solar image that you took

The second being the image you are most proud of (your very best)
Then we can enjoy your solar imaging journey :)

(please include equipment and date)

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My first image from 28/05/2018.

150mm refractor scope
Lunt LS 60F Ha filter
ASI174MM camera
SharpCap
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My favorite image from 11/09/2022

150mm refractor scope
SolarSpectrum 0.7/DS
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My history is very short, so the first one was created a few months ago. Not quite the first, but the first one I didn't trash.
The first was created on 06/18/2022, my most popular on 10/9/2022.
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Re: November Solar Challenge

Post by rsfoto »

Hi,

I do not find my very first image but here the first image of the Sun I posted in the forum astroforo.net on January 21st 2008. Yes, I started during Solar minimum and it was not boring :mrgreen:

Also the image of the equipment which is my double stacked Coronado SM60 on a Takahashi Sky 90 lurking through the window of the apartment where I used to live during my stay in Mexico City.

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and the best achievement was on my Birthday day in 2010 in form of a video ...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10--QTD6VK8


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So here is my first imaged when I first got my Lunt LS60T with a Meade DSI III camera!

Full Disk from 5/10/2012
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And my favorite, huge prom lift off from 4/28/2015 with the Lunt LS60T and a DMK31AU03 camera

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My very first

PST single stack with a Philips SPC900nc webcam 4th July 2009
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and my best 9th May 2016
Solarscope DSF100 / 1.6x Barlow / FLIR Grasshopper 3

Image2016-05-09 15:01 UT f colour APOTY 2017 winner - Our Sun section by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

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Re: November Solar Challenge

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Love this challenge! Can’t wait to see them all!
My first single (not stacked) image in WL was taken 22nd Dec 2018 with an iPhone 8 in an Orion SteadyPix Universal Smartphone Telescope Adapter clamped onto the 25mm eyepiece of a Celestron 6se which had a Celestron EclipSmart Solar Filter clipped to the front!
The image which is most important to me was taken 23rd June 2022 with a Skywatcher Evostar 80 ED DS Pro, Daystar Quark Prominence, UV/IR filter, ASI174MM, tilt adapter and a Celestron AVX. I'd yearned to image a filaprom with a non inverted disc but struggled for ages with processing, so this was a big achievement!
Onwards and upwards…
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Post by GreatAttractor »

Great idea, Alexandra!

Unfortunately I lost my very first webcam images, but here's something taken not much later (April 2012). SW 150PL (150/1200 mm Newtonian), LifeCam HD5000 (converted webcam), Baader solar film:
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And March 2022, currently the best what I could get out of my RC8/Lunt 50 mod (but stay tuned for the setup's improvements next year), Blackfly S (IMX 273):

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These are really fun to see!


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WoW Rainer. You did a color image!! :o


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StarHugger wrote: Thu Nov 03, 2022 5:18 am Greetings Everyone!


I also noticed that my friend Warren jumped in with an animation so I thought to see his amimation and raise him a transit 😆


Best of luck Everyone :band2


I call 😁

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First digital solar image (2001)

http://astrosurf.com/re/sun_20010613.jpg
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The first is one with my third Quark, older images i cant find, it dates back to April 2019. I used a TS 102 ed F/7
Quark Chromosphere + 110mm D-ERF + ASI174mm. I can remember though when i started with (2017/18) this setup my very first images looked similar to Alexandras first image here.

The second one is what i consider one of my best H-alpha results up to today (09.10.2022). I got this old and used quark after i sold the brand new Quark #3 off on ebay. Only much later it turned out a way better etalon then i expected, thanks to this forum and tuning the temperature knob.
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Woohoo!! Whatta spot Pedro!!


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Hi everyone.
The past.
I have been photographing the sun since the late 80s, but I could not find photo data. The first photo of which I found data is of 25 August 1992.
Mto lens 500mm with tamron 2X, different ND filter and orange filter, Yaschica 108 multiprogram, exposure time 1/2000, kodak film 400 asa.
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Today.
Takahashi FS152, Televue 4X, Baader Herschel wedge, solar continum double stack, player one mars-m

Ciao

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Sorry for my english !


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turi lo vecchio wrote: Thu Nov 03, 2022 7:56 pm Hi everyone.
The past.
I have been photographing the sun since the late 80s, but I could not find photo data. The first photo of which I found data is of 25 August 1992.
Mto lens 500mm with tamron 2X, different ND filter and orange filter, Yaschica 108 multiprogram, exposure time 1/2000, kodak film 400 asa.

sole_pellicola.jpg


Today.
Takahashi FS152, Televue 4X, Baader Herschel wedge, solar continum double stack, player one mars-m

Ciao


Sun_105207_01c.jpg


Sorry for my english !
I see a slight difference in quality between the shots! :D


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Fun topic :)

First ever solar image:

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One of my favourites:

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Those are all great shots everyone.


Here's the oldest one I can find.
2012 July 14, Nikon D60, Baader solar film, Meade 90mm f/8.8 achromat.
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And here's my favourite.
2022 September 10, Lunt LS40, 2x Barlow, ASI 174.
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2010. Best image because it is the biggest solar thing I have caught on camera
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2005. My first solar stacked image, using a modified Philips Toucam with a PST, K3CCDTools for capture and Registax. A huge leap from attempting afocal digital camera shots on a PST.
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WoW Robert. That was a great CME animation capture!!


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My first was for a partial eclipse 10/06/2021 that I wouldn't want to miss :

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Astrosolaar 3.5 on APO 102 f/5 + barlow + ASI 178MC

But that day I didn't do only one picture but a lot for an animation:



My fav is an ISS transit shot on 29/06/2022 on Ha:

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APO 102 f/5, barlow telecentric 3x, Daystar Quark chromo combo, ASI 178MM

I also did a video of it:


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Hi everyone...

Great topic and love seeing all the contributions that you all have.

Now this has taken me on a trip down memory lane, as I found a lot of 'firsts' in my search. In light of the request for the first solar photo I found a old album of my early astronomical images and this FD WL image taken in 1979 with my first 35mm SLR (film) Camera taken through a 60mm, f11 Tasco refractor. Firm dates are not available, but it is sometime in the summer or fall I would expect as the camera was a Public School graduation gift.
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I took the above pic of the original with my phone, but it shows the crude early attempts at taking pics.

As for my very best, this is a hard one to choose...must be tens of thousands to choose from. I picked this mosaic of a set of AR's approaching the western limb, taken on February 17th 2014 with the Daystar Quantum filter mounted on the Celestron CR150 OTA.
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I can't really say why I chose this one, but it has stayed in my mind over they years as a level of detail to beat during the next solar maximum...time will tel if I pull it off ;)

Now at this point I'm going to deviate form Alexandra's two image request, as I found a number of other firsts. My first digital solar image was taken on June 8, 1994 through the same 60mm refractor using a TC211 chipped camera...exact model escapes me, but the pair of images show an AR approaching the limb:
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The next 'first' was a UV filtered full disk image taken on August 8th, 2002 through a Celestron C102 (102mm, f10) refractor with an SBIG 237 CCD camera:
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My venture into Ha imaging started at a star party in 2004, where a fellow next to our campsite had a 40mm Coronado scope set up (not a PST) and allowed me to collect my first images through his scope. This was on August 21st, 2004 with the same ST237 camera:
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July 6th 2006 saw my first light with a DSLR...a Canon 350D on the C102 scope and a Thousand Oakes class solar filter:
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I was surprised to find this one...first from a limited number of jet transits. This was captured on November 4th, 2008 through the C102 OTA and Lumenera Infinity 2-1 CCD camera:
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Now, the last 'first' is my first image of a solar eclipse at maximum. This was taken during the annular eclipse on May 10th, 1994, again with the Canon 350D and C102 OTA:
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I was not able to find a sketch book that I used prior to getting my first 35mm camera, but there would have been solar sketches starting around 1976 when I first bought the Tasco 60mm scope (I still have it).

Thanks for taking the time to go re-visit the past with me, it's been fun :bow

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So many excellent images in this post! Turi, Brian, your film camera shot are a piece of history!

Her are my first one, dated June 2013, and my favorite, because of the nice prominence evolution rather than the image overall quality

Both with a Lunt 60mm


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I love the liftoff!!


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Great choices Marcello :bow

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Re: November Solar Challenge

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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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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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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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Hey Peter, welcome to another great forum!


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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.

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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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