Sun In White Light 10-11-2013. 10:15

[Steve Ward]

Well that's just typical , crystal clear skies greeted me this morning , accompanied by possibly the worst seeing this year .... 

Was planning a nice long close-up assault with the big Mak  ,  Fat chance ... 

Shot over 300 frames for the disc and struggled to find the 33 I stacked .... 

1000D + ED80Pro + ND3.8 + 1.8 x Barlow + OIII.

1/640s @ ISO 200 , 33/338 , Reg 5.1 , Gimp 2.8.

Day by day album . . . http://www.astrobin.com/users/steveward53/

[David Smith]

Nice work in the circumstances.

[Bizibilder]

That's a good image - so well worth dumping all those subs!

[Luke]

Well fought to get a good result, Steve   Worth it for the way the disc looks at the moment in white light

I think we were luckier with the seeing here, some decent views in the eyepiece at 180x mag.

[DrRobin]

Nice result Steve. I took mine this morning, but haven't finished processing yet.

Robin

[Sarah]

Well captured Steve. I had my first look at the sun in ages yesterday. Those sunspots are looking good!

Sarah

[Steve Ward]

Should have kept my moaning to myself , 24h of heavy rain now for here , just as another big AR comes into view .... 

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/latest_4096_HMII.jpg

[Montana]

Still an excellent shot Steve

So it wasn't just me, I had lovely clear skies but the seeing was terrible, I'm really struggling to salvage any decent images from 120GB data

Alexandra

[Steve Ward]

Not sure there's much worse than capturing loads of data and then deleting it all unused.

As well as the 300+ frames I dumped on the full disc there were 400+ close-up shots and endless short AVI's ..... 

[Luke]

Hmmm, I thought things looked okay during capture, but Autostakkert is not liking the closeups The capture kinda looks okay apart from things are jumping around a lot and I think the stacking software is having a very hard time lining things up. At least, that's how it seems to me.

[Montana]

Did everyone struggle on Sunday? they looked OK on screen but don't process that well, at least I am not alone

Alexandra

[Steve Ward]

Vast improvement today , famous last words .... 

[Luke]

I shoot with high-ish gamma so it's not the easiest to see fine detail but the stacked image looked okay and blurry as expected.

Any attempt to sharpen at all and it just falls apart   Basically unusable as far as I can see. One of my prime focus tiles looked ok, my closeups were about 4x barlow (I'll leave 5x to the crazy folks for now )

Steve, I am guessing you are excited about that new spot coming into view   Super super disc in white light again, I had a very nice view during early lunch.

Did everyone struggle on Sunday? they looked OK on screen but don't process that well, at least I am not alone

Alexandra

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

The struggle paid off. Nice image!