the sun, 30th oct Ha

[sooot]

not very good conditions lots of thin cloud and the sun was hogging the roof tops but managed my first view with the double stack filter on the lunt60...WOW what a difference, sun just pops out and smacks you in the face

managed a couple of quick captures but with the conditions less than 25% of the 200 frames were stacked (riddled with cloud)

2x barlow comparison between single and double stacked with about the same processing on each

ss and ds comparison by sooot22, on Flickr'

inverted fc 4 x mosaic

sun invert 30/10/14 by sooot22, on Flickr'

mono 4 x mosaic

'sun mono, 30/10/14 by sooot22, on Flickr'

false colour

'sun fals colour 30/10/14 by sooot22, on Flickr'

[JB80]

Excellent side by side, certainly a WOW between the images.

That AR2200 region is quite active too.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Lovely images. I spotted those big proms on the eastern limb today, could be heralding something big, perhaps

[Luke]

Great images, Craig. The extra contrast at the eyepiece with double stacking is very sweet And lovely to see in your side by side what the imaging result was

[sooot]

Had to do a side by side and convince myself that its 1700 well spent, ill have to wait till next year or find a new location to image, just as he clears the trees hes running straight into roof tops

[oldpink]

Meh fiction
the sun is a myth, it doesn't exist anymore, least not up here in Scotland

[sooot]

6 months of darkness

[oldpink]

feels like it
1 night of clear skies and dew killed that around 2 am in the last 2 weeks
feels like I'm living on Venus with all this cloud

and I'm in London for a week from Sun and even in Kingston my view of the sky is postage stamp sized

[sooot]

Wish i could do some night imaging but atik got my camera fixing it ,not got any dew prevention for the 9.25 yet so planetary seems pointless

[Iainp]

Nice!  I bought my Lunt 80mm a few months back, with the idea that I'd upgrade to the double stack in the next year or two. I'll show this comparison to my wife in the hope that she will see the sense in my plan too ;-) 

[David Smith]

Wow, that DS makes a big difference. Still not jealous   much

[Montana]

Double stack every time for me, once you have used a DS you never want to go back to a single.

Alexandra

[sooot]

don't think the DS will come off now, just need some sun

[Pete Presland]

excellent images as always!