December Solar Challenge
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December Solar Challenge
Getting ready for the solstice, add all your Solarcan / homemade cans / analemma images here
If you haven't got a Solarcan maturing get ready to set one up this month
Alexandra
If you haven't got a Solarcan maturing get ready to set one up this month
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Re: December Solar Challenge
My Solarcan can is maturing nicely
Stu.
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Re: December Solar Challenge
Hi all...
My Solar Can is brewing away on the utility pole by the observatory, and I have another in its way to capture the winter/spring solar track!
Looking forward to seeing what everyone has to show for their efforts !
Brian
My Solar Can is brewing away on the utility pole by the observatory, and I have another in its way to capture the winter/spring solar track!
Looking forward to seeing what everyone has to show for their efforts !
Brian
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Re: December Solar Challenge
One from Dec 21st 2006 if that still counts!
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Your image looks great Robert!!!
I can't wait to see what my effort poduces.
Brian
I can't wait to see what my effort poduces.
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Just got my Solar Can to set up on the 21st!
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Jumping the gun....but there's no Sun in the forecast tomorrow....and I couldn't wait
Pity I missed the mid summer Sun, but I'm pleased with the overall result.
For reference, here's the original scan, out of the can, just flipped to correct the orientation.
And something a bit more 'arty'....
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Pity I missed the mid summer Sun, but I'm pleased with the overall result.
For reference, here's the original scan, out of the can, just flipped to correct the orientation.
And something a bit more 'arty'....
Stu.
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Re: December Solar Challenge
Well done Stuart!! the arty one is amazing!! who needs a lake when you have GIMP It looks like December was a good sunny month I bet you are impressed with that I hope mine come out OK. I will need to wait till Friday before I can see what my cans have done.
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Re: December Solar Challenge
Absolutely love your solargraph Stu! Great colours and the arty version is fabulous 👏
We’re lucky with a little more sun today in York before I go hunting for mine at sunset!
Nic
We’re lucky with a little more sun today in York before I go hunting for mine at sunset!
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Re: December Solar Challenge
Hi Stuart !
I love your solarcan result ! Can you explain the original scan please ? Are the dark lines across the sky the solar images ? And the white foreground the landscape etc ?
It looks like you missed the highest parts of the path of the sun in the summer - what do you think you could have done to capture the top of the sun's path ?
n.b. Can I try and process your original/raw .jpg file for practice ?? I can publish here if its any good.
Thanks.
Magnus.
I love your solarcan result ! Can you explain the original scan please ? Are the dark lines across the sky the solar images ? And the white foreground the landscape etc ?
It looks like you missed the highest parts of the path of the sun in the summer - what do you think you could have done to capture the top of the sun's path ?
n.b. Can I try and process your original/raw .jpg file for practice ?? I can publish here if its any good.
Thanks.
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Hi Robert!
Super looking solarcan image! It looks just as good as the ones they put on the instruction leaflet on the solarcan.
Can I practice processing on your image you have posted ? Thanks.
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Hi Robert !
It looks like a considerable part of the time, the sun was blocked by the clouds or something !!!
Magnus
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Re: December Solar Challenge
Yes that's fine. My image was processed by Tarya Trygg who set up this project
http://www.solargraphy.com/index.php?It ... &task=view
Lots of stuff on the website too
Best
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Re: December Solar Challenge
Stu: you are the can master ! So far You certainly have a beautiful and creative interpretation, very well done. I am afraid to find out the results of my first can experiment…
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That is awesome Stu! I just set mine up yesterday to start the next sequence but don’t have the nice horizon you have!
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Re: December Solar Challenge
Hi Magnus,Radon86 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 21, 2022 9:16 am Hi Stuart !
I love your solarcan result ! Can you explain the original scan please ? Are the dark lines across the sky the solar images ? And the white foreground the landscape etc ?
It looks like you missed the highest parts of the path of the sun in the summer - what do you think you could have done to capture the top of the sun's path ?
n.b. Can I try and process your original/raw .jpg file for practice ?? I can publish here if its any good.
Thanks.
Magnus.
Thank you for your comments.
You are correct about the dark lines/white foreground
To image the highest parts, the can could have been tilted or a replacement hole could have been made higher up the can (challenging to make an appropriately small hole).
Perfectly happy for you to process my original.
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I was pleasantly surprised at how well it came out. I was concerned that it might have been disturbed during the build, with everything that went on.Montana wrote: ↑Wed Dec 21, 2022 7:39 am Well done Stuart!! the arty one is amazing!! who needs a lake when you have GIMP It looks like December was a good sunny month I bet you are impressed with that I hope mine come out OK. I will need to wait till Friday before I can see what my cans have done.
Alexandra
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Re: December Solar Challenge
Carbon60 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 4:08 pm Jumping the gun....but there's no Sun in the forecast tomorrow....and I couldn't wait
SolarCan 2022_June_December_Colour.jpg
Pity I missed the mid summer Sun, but I'm pleased with the overall result.
For reference, here's the original scan, out of the can, just flipped to correct the orientation.
SolarCan 2022_June_December.JPG
And something a bit more 'arty'....
SolarCan 2022_June_December_Stuart Green.jpg
Stu.
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Hi Stuart...
Great to see your results...the cloud really shows up in the trails.
Brian
Great to see your results...the cloud really shows up in the trails.
Brian
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Re: December Solar Challenge
Hello all: this is my first time doing this and I am surprised anything came out of it... I am happy with this first result, my solarcan location has limited exposure and my processing skills are what they are . Stu: can you please reprocess mine and show me what you can get ? I may get another solarcan, though, and do it again. It is fun !
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I like yours Franco, the trees show up so well and I like the solar trails being offset like they are.
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Re: December Solar Challenge
Oh Franco this is fantastic!ffellah wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 11:09 pm Hello all: this is my first time doing this and I am surprised anything came out of it... I am happy with this first result, my solarcan location has limited exposure and my processing skills are what they are :roll: . Stu: can you please reprocess mine and show me what you can get ? I may get another solarcan, though, and do it again. :) It is fun !
Franco
I think your processing looks lovely. An alternative would be to keep the stone path in the foreground in your image because I think the way it mirrors the trail of the sun is wonderfully artistic! I would love to catch something like that!
I put two cans up: one was stolen and one was crushed so I’m going to try to salvage something from the crushed can to share!
Well done
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Thank you Warren, Maurits and Nic for your nice comments. Nic: you have experience with this. The top of the path is cutoff: is it because the camera was hung too high ? Should I position the next one lower ? Any suggestions are welcome.
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Re: December Solar Challenge
It is the angle of tilt of the can and not the height from the ground which is important. So you can sit the can on the ground and tilt it 30-45° depending on where the pinhole is. If the pinhole is central then I tilt nearer 45°
It is very hard to get interesting foreground detail and at the same time catch the highest trail in mid summer!
This is why it becomes addictive!
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Re: December Solar Challenge
Well done Franco!!
I am just going through 3 cans and processing is like opening a can of worms, I could keep going till next Christmas
Alexandra
Nic, that is truly disappointing, I was just watching a train cam this morning going to Hull and someone put a stick deliberately across the line to make the train jump, why do people do these things
I am just going through 3 cans and processing is like opening a can of worms, I could keep going till next Christmas
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Nic, that is truly disappointing, I was just watching a train cam this morning going to Hull and someone put a stick deliberately across the line to make the train jump, why do people do these things
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Re: December Solar Challenge
I couldn't help myself Franco, I do absolutely adore your view!
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Re: December Solar Challenge
Excellent, Franco. I'm flattered that you asked me to process your already great image. Alexandra has also done a great job bringing out the interesting foreground. I've gone for the arty approach.
Merry Xmas everyone.
Stu.
Merry Xmas everyone.
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Re: December Solar Challenge
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I put two cans up: one was stolen and one was crushed so I’m going to try to salvage something from the crushed can to share!
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NO! ...That's so disappointing, Nic. I hope the crushed one gives you something interesting.
Maybe they stupidly thought they contained beer.
Stu.
I put two cans up: one was stolen and one was crushed so I’m going to try to salvage something from the crushed can to share!
[/quote]
NO! ...That's so disappointing, Nic. I hope the crushed one gives you something interesting.
Maybe they stupidly thought they contained beer.
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Re: December Solar Challenge
Thank you Nic for the inclination tip, thank you Alexandra for the encouragement and the totally unexpected SPOD. I really like your processing of the image, Alexandra, glad you kept the whole frame and made everything in the image very visible. Stu: love your interpretation of the image, it is very artistic, very nicely framed and beautifully colored. I will keep both yours and Alexandra's as reference images.
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Thankfully the upper two thirds of the solargraph from the crushed can is really lovely and I’m still newly navigating photoshop to decide how to show the lower affected third! The hilarious prankster had removed my Solarcan and replaced it with a tango can so I’ve apparently been ‘tangoed’ (as per UK TV advertising campaign!) it’s part funny and part frustrating as it had the potential to be a cracking image… never mind, onwards and upwards like the morning sun!
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Re: December Solar Challenge
OK, I could go on forever tinkering with colours etc. I had three Solarcans on all 3 drainpipes round the house. One East, South and West. I had three Solarcan colours Nebula, Atlantis and Eldorado. Nebula would not scan, I scanned 3 times and it came out totally black despite the preview being fine. The only way I could scan it was to put an image of a hedgehog behind????
Here are my assortment
Nebula 01 West by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
Nebula Eldorado combined by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
Atlantis 01 South by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
Atlantis South reflection by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
Atlantis 02 South by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
Eldorado East by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
I'll reduce the size of the originals and add next.
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Here are my assortment
Nebula 01 West by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
Nebula Eldorado combined by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
Atlantis 01 South by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
Atlantis South reflection by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
Atlantis 02 South by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
Eldorado East by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr
I'll reduce the size of the originals and add next.
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Re: December Solar Challenge
Beautifully done, Alexandra. Great results. I like the variation in colours and presentation styles. You’re allowed to award yourself a SPoD
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Re: December Solar Challenge
Fantastic images, Alexandra ! The shapes, the coloring are truly beautiful . Agree with Stu, yours are the true SPODs .
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Franco...
Great image and congrats on the SPoD
First attempts are always a challenge...it will be interesting to see how mine turns out tonight when I can get around to scanning it. All of the re-worked versions each add a different flavour to the image...all are good.
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Great image and congrats on the SPoD
First attempts are always a challenge...it will be interesting to see how mine turns out tonight when I can get around to scanning it. All of the re-worked versions each add a different flavour to the image...all are good.
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Re: December Solar Challenge
Hi Alexandra...
Your assortment of images all look great Odd you had to put the hedgehog in to get the Nebula paper to scan properly. Nicely doen!
And now for something completely different...Mmmm, hedgehog...reminds of a Monty Python skit...Dinsdale,Dinsdale
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Your assortment of images all look great Odd you had to put the hedgehog in to get the Nebula paper to scan properly. Nicely doen!
And now for something completely different...Mmmm, hedgehog...reminds of a Monty Python skit...Dinsdale,Dinsdale
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Nic...
Sorry to hear of the damage to your setup. It will be interesting to see what you can salvage from the the one can.
Brian
Sorry to hear of the damage to your setup. It will be interesting to see what you can salvage from the the one can.
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Hi everyone...
I finally had some free time this evening to open my Solarcan, scan the paper and see what I managed to record
I was very happy with the results in general...orientation of the pinhole was pretty much centered on the south and the fence-rows and hydro transmission towers show up quite well too. The can was mounted on June 21st and taken down on Dec 22nd, so I managed to catch the full six month trek of our star across the sky. I was surprised as to how much to the solar arc extended off the upper margin of the paper. I'm thinking the next can needs to be tilted up around 20 degrees or so...any suggestions would be most welcome. There are also many small spots on the scanned image...water-spots perhaps?
The pic below shows where I mounted the can on June 21st. I placed it on the utility pole south of the observatories and put it high enough that the crop of corn in the filed to the south of the property didn't block the sun. That seems to have worked I played around in Photoshop trying many different settings, some following the suggestions for the solarcan website too.
The first is the raw image off the scanner: The next is the inverted raw image: The next three are what I settled on as some of my preferred versions...the lower portion of the frame was cropped out for these. First gives a moiore natural to the landscape: This next version has a more yellow/red enhancement of the suns path: And the last is a monochrome version: Feel free to process and see what variations anyone can come up with.
Once the new solarcan arrives I will be setting it up to catch the progression of winter into summer. Suggestions to improve the coverage of the upper arcs would be much appreciated.
Brian
I finally had some free time this evening to open my Solarcan, scan the paper and see what I managed to record
I was very happy with the results in general...orientation of the pinhole was pretty much centered on the south and the fence-rows and hydro transmission towers show up quite well too. The can was mounted on June 21st and taken down on Dec 22nd, so I managed to catch the full six month trek of our star across the sky. I was surprised as to how much to the solar arc extended off the upper margin of the paper. I'm thinking the next can needs to be tilted up around 20 degrees or so...any suggestions would be most welcome. There are also many small spots on the scanned image...water-spots perhaps?
The pic below shows where I mounted the can on June 21st. I placed it on the utility pole south of the observatories and put it high enough that the crop of corn in the filed to the south of the property didn't block the sun. That seems to have worked I played around in Photoshop trying many different settings, some following the suggestions for the solarcan website too.
The first is the raw image off the scanner: The next is the inverted raw image: The next three are what I settled on as some of my preferred versions...the lower portion of the frame was cropped out for these. First gives a moiore natural to the landscape: This next version has a more yellow/red enhancement of the suns path: And the last is a monochrome version: Feel free to process and see what variations anyone can come up with.
Once the new solarcan arrives I will be setting it up to catch the progression of winter into summer. Suggestions to improve the coverage of the upper arcs would be much appreciated.
Brian
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These are so great, but I’m not going to get impatient about waiting until June to open my Solar Can! Right???
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That is still very effective Franco. Fantastic!ffellah wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 11:09 pm Hello all: this is my first time doing this and I am surprised anything came out of it... I am happy with this first result, my solarcan location has limited exposure and my processing skills are what they are . Stu: can you please reprocess mine and show me what you can get ? I may get another solarcan, though, and do it again. It is fun !
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Excellent results, Brian. I had spots on mine too. Interesting that some darken on the tracks, suggesting they are transparent and concentrate the light. Maybe they are water droplets. There’s probably a bit of dust too.
As for orientation, my thought is to point the can south (for us in the north), tipped up in the direction of the ecliptic, so the axis of the can runs parallel to Earth’s spin axis. The challenge then might be to keep the rain from entering the hole. Maybe a piece of a PET bottle could be used as a protective cover?
Stu.
As for orientation, my thought is to point the can south (for us in the north), tipped up in the direction of the ecliptic, so the axis of the can runs parallel to Earth’s spin axis. The challenge then might be to keep the rain from entering the hole. Maybe a piece of a PET bottle could be used as a protective cover?
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Brian, you images look fabulous to me. I really like how the arc is centered In the image: the different colorings also show well what can be done with the image. I assume this is your first solarcan, just like for me. Definitely a lot of fun: I just ordered a second one. Now the challenge is to improve the result.
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Warren, Stuart, and Franco...
Thanks for your feedback on the solar can results...much appreciated
Franco, this is my first attempt so it gives a base to work form for improvements. Stuart, I was thinking of the water ingress potential if the can was tilted much and wonder how much a rain shield (like an awning above the hole) could block the sun when you consider how wide the field of view is. Something to think about while I await the second can.
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Thanks for your feedback on the solar can results...much appreciated
Franco, this is my first attempt so it gives a base to work form for improvements. Stuart, I was thinking of the water ingress potential if the can was tilted much and wonder how much a rain shield (like an awning above the hole) could block the sun when you consider how wide the field of view is. Something to think about while I await the second can.
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