David Smith

Nice one Charl

Quick session this morning before work. Not a lot to see to be fair, nothing doing in white light but a nice prom on show in Ca-K. I was quite surprised the full disk mosaic stitched as there is very little for Autostitch to work with really.

Thanks. Yes, didn't expect anything this weekend other than maybe a bit of rain!

Thanks Charl, was a surprise when I woke.

Made an early start and found clear-ish skies, a bit hazy but much better than the last 2 days. Didn't expect much with all the active regions now on the far side but I was pleasantly surprised! White light was quiet as expected although the seeing was not bad at all and visually the granulation was quite impressive. I didn't do close ups with the ASI today as there were no AR's, just an FD via DSLR. Ca-K disk looked pretty quiet too Then I switched to look for proms and found a whole bunch of stuff going on. After reading a few articles / posts recently I had a play around with binning 2x today. This really helps capture proms with shorter exposure times and faster frame rates. The first 2 images below are at native 1000mm focal length, the last 2 using the 2.5x barlow.

Crikey Dave, that Prom's one to be proud of, especially given the conditions. Well done.

I use the Colours > Levels control and adjust the red, green and blue channels until I am happy with the results. Once you find something you are happy with you can save those settings so that you can reuse the same settings next time.

That's a very cool windshield cover.

Interesting video

Well done catching those. Conditions were tough here yesterday as well.

Great image Ben. This prom looked faint and ill-defined in Ca-K, nothing like this!

I picked up an ASI120MC-S at a good price recently, with the intention of doing a bit of planetary imaging when Jupiter gets to opposition in a few weeks. Did a first night-time test last night with a few shots of the Moon. Not the best night for it with some cirrus cloud in the way but had a go anyway. Never owned or used a colour camera before so took a bit of getting used to. Screwed to the T thread on the back of the Skymax 127 I took a few 2000 frames captures then stacked and sharpened them. Below is the best of the set.

Another early start, rubbish conditions though. Still got a few shots in though.

Good result from a quick session. Did well to get 3 lights!

Good catch Ewan. Good to see you posting some images again