Huge prominences with the new QHY5L-II camera, plus video ^_^

[AstroWolvy]

The weekend seemed to be party in the best way, the night before I had received the new camera, the QHY5L-II and I had installed the drivers that seemed to go, the sky was finally clear with good seeing.

But I did not know what was waiting for me in the morning.

Looking at pictures online I spotted a pair of gigantic prominences, what better time to try the new camera, I prepared relatively calm the equipment, the air is fresh and already I foretaste of a great timelapse of one of the two, asap the filter went in the temperature I pointed the sun and I have the first surprise: firecapture freezzed every two to three trial and error seems to happen by changing the settings of the camera or moving the subject, there seems to be a bug that blocks everything when the screen is overexposed or quickly moves the picture; you can understand that disconnect and restart the software every time I want to rotate the picture or change the barlow is inconceivable, I try different combinations of firecapture and drivers but I come to nothing.

As if it were not enough with the new versions of firecapture that manage the QHY I can not get my mythical chameleon, does not recognize her own, arriving at the solution of having two versions of drivers and two versions of firecapture to be able to use both.

The new camera then proves to have the same defect of the previous QHY-Magzero-Allccd and company, the sensor and slides are perpetually dirty, although I try to clean it I cannot reach a good result, only at the end of the session I removed everything, wash the sensor for a few minutes, and I close with one of my clear filter of the Baader. I hope will disappear also the random reflection that I had noticed on its original clear filter.

Unfortunately, however, the problems are not over yet, in fact the most mangy cannot not be solved, the structure of the CMOS sensor goes into interference with my optical train Halpha, images with heavy newton bands force me to use the chameleon for the disc and try to use the qhy5 on prominence, only on a high-contrast subject seem to hide the problem.

Maybe some other combination of a barlow / filters might not have those problem but in my case it was an apocalypse. : Wink:

But I must take formal note that it is faster and sensitivity is on the same level.

In the afternoon I started shooting a timelapse but the dramatic worsening of the seeing made me give up after half an hour. However, I am attaching the result of so much suffering and sweat (there were at least 32 degrees ) and the video of the last week solar events I hope you enjoy.

Chameleon

QHY5L-II

QHY5L-II

[allcart]

Those are fantastc Paolo. The animation is superb. The proms almost dance to the music.

I really want your solar setup.

[Montana]

Absolutely fantastic! I'm glad you eventually sorted all the problems

Alexandra

[AstroWolvy]

tnx, i'm still fighting with drivers and newton rings, those are captured during the fight

[ncjunk]

Nice pictures and video, i really enjoyed watching them!

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[riklaunim]

It's not the CMOS that causes Newton rings, it's the Aptina/Micron sensor cover glass.