Sun from Home Sweet Home - 29th July, 2014

[Luke]

I'm fresh back from a lovely holiday in sunny Dorset, but it was great to get back home so I could use my 120mm scope with the Quark For the Quark's tuning for these shots, I tried four clicks clockwise from the centre position instead of my usual two, having played around with the tuning while on hols with my 60mm scope and Quark. Whether the two scopes should have the same, I don't know, but here are the shots.

For all images I took 1700 frames (about a minute's worth with my camera) and stacked around 25% of them using Autostakkert 2.

I hope to post some of my solar shots from my hols soon - I took my 60mm scope plus Quark and Herschel wedge with me and, amazingly, got at least one image on every day! :-o

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29th July, 2014
Equinox 120mm, Quark Chromosphere, Grasshopper 3 (ICX687) video camera, 0.5x reducer

[FunkyKoval35]

What a stunning images. Fantastic shots!

[David Smith]

Fantastic pics Luke. We're in Cornwall for the week but managed to get the PST in the car and grab some avi's this morning. May have to process when we get home end of the week though.

[Steve Ward]

Superb set sir ... 

@ David .... I knew you could find a space .... 

[DrRobin]

Sweet home Bedford, is that? Very nice Luke. I am beginning to think that the Quark needs more aperture than your 60 or my 80mm, these are brilliant.

I have gone back to neutral position on my Quark, which seems to work best. According to the manual, if you have tilt in you focuser/diagonal, then you will need to compensate with tuning, otherwise it should be in the neutral position. I guess from this it will be different for every scope.

Robin

[sooot]

Loving those top two images

[kingboya]

What a stunning set. Well done!

Quick thread hijack...... Which quark did you buy, and are you using a uvir cut filter in the diagonal before the quark, or an erf?

[dazzaa1966]

Fantastic images Luke. What filter do you use with your scope.

[Johan L]

Super images!

[Pete Presland]

stunningly good images, very impressed with the Quark!

[Montana]

These images are adorable, I'm in love :)

Alexandra

[bobmoss]

Incredible images!

[Luke]

Thanks all for the kind words!

David, have a great hols, well done fitting in the PST, look forward to seeing your images when you get a chance to process them. I have a lot to process from my hols!

Robin, that's interesting if central tuning should be okay if there is no tilt. Maybe Bedford is on a tilt as my four scopes all seem to like the tuning into the clockwise

kingboya and dazzaa1966, I am using a Daystar Quark Chromosphere. Although it's called Chromosphere, you can still see and image proms as well with it, but if proms were your main thing, the Prom version should be better giving brighter proms.

[dazzaa1966]

Sorry Luke I meant blocking filter.....

[spaceboy]

Outstanding images Luke

[Astroblagger]

fantastic images they have 3D quality to them.