Steve Ward
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And yes I know there's a minor stacking anomaly at the bottom centre of the disc , I stacked frames from 8 different sets shot over a two hour period which can play merry hell with the edge of the disc due to rotation ... 😉
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Rough seeing first thing here , which proceded to get worse as I was capturing. Still managed to glean enough to play with to get a decent image though .
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New scenario for me today ... sometimes you just need a little luck on your side ... 🤣 Shot two sets and dumped them both as garbage . Then as the next blue patch lined up over the Sun it started raining and hailing from behind me ... ! I carried on shooting regardless with the 'scope and bits draped under a tarpaulin ( leaving just the business end poking out) and found I'd caught 42 great frames from the set of 150 shot.
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Hello Roger , Trust you are well ? Good to see I'm not the only one revisiting our old friend ... 🌞
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Another glorious blue start to the day ...
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Can you use Imaging source DMK 41 mono camera in APT.
Steve Ward replied to Look left's topic in Imaging - Solar
As far as I know APT is for still camera control , SharpCap is what you want for 'video' cameras (or possibly FireCapture) -
Blue patches here today but the seeing was rank , shot 720 , stacked 74.
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The "grower" growing ... video from SDO via JHelioviewer.
Steve Ward replied to Steve Ward's topic in Imaging - Solar
The clue's in the title Neil ... 😉 -
Just had a play with the new version of JHelioviewer , used to be good , now it's even better ...
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I think it's still growing , but it's a job to tell from this morning's dismal effort ... 🤣
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I tried ... 🤣
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"Inspired" by this day eight years ago I felt compelled to have a go this morning despite the blanket of cloud ... 🤣 My selection of "stackable" frames ..... And the result ... lol
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Not a cloud to be seen and pretty decent seeing , great start to the Bank Holiday weekend ... Kit as always , Baader ND3.8 film on the Tal 100RS then an OIII filter on the front of the 1.8x Barlow (customised down from 2x to better fill the sensor) attached to a Canon EOS1000D. 500 frames shot , 132 stacked.
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Been imaging all week but no internet until lunchtime today so to save messing about here's a week's worth in one hit ... all as jpegs to save clogging things up too much ... full res all on my Astrobin gallery here ... https://www.astrobin.com/users/steveward53/ ... Was nice to catch the whole week's worth of action , but the 27th and 28th were dreadful for both seeing and clouds hence the dreadful images ..... !
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Had to take two bites at it due to the seeing .... got there in the end.
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Bit more blue , few more images ...
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One extreme to the other ... shot 360 frames before the clouds rolled over , stacked 170 ... ! Full discs then some trimmed and drizzled just because ... would have pointed the big Mak180 at it if the clouds hadn't arrived so soon ...
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Foul conditions , milky sky , wibbly-wobbly disc ... at times I could lose the big spots completely on screen !! Shot 1000 frames , selected 48 of the "better" ones ... 😄
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Hi Stu , They're just visible now but weren't at 08:00 , can't be bothered to set up again today so hoping it's clearish tomorrow.
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Not a lot to look at today , but it's a bank holiday weekend so what else is there to do ... ? No sign of the approaching 'big 'uns' yet so here's hoping for a bi of blue tomorrow.
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Still blue , still pointing glass ... Big 'uns ... https://www.astrobin.com/users/steveward53/
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Still messin' around with it .... 😆 Full size versions over on Astrobin ... https://www.astrobin.com/users/steveward53/
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Still playing with the recipe ... Full pics here ... https://www.astrobin.com/users/steveward53/
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EDITED VERSION SHOWING CORECT IMAGES .... LOL Once you start you just can't leave it alone ... 🤣 Awful seeing here but found a number of frames to play with , still experimenting though ... ! Full size versions in my Astrobin gallery ... click on thumbnail to get there , or see the lot here ...https://www.astrobin.com/users/steveward53 [URL=https://astrob.in/vbedxu/0/][IMG]https://astrob.in/vbedxu/0/rawthumb/gallery/get.jpg?insecure[/IMG][/URL] [URL=https://astrob.in/zpz0en/0/][IMG]https://astrob.in/zpz0en/0/rawthumb/gallery/get.jpg?insecure[/IMG][/URL] [URL=https://astrob.in/mhwufb/0/][IMG]https://astrob.in/mhwufb/0/rawthumb/gallery/get.jpg?insecure[/IMG][/URL]
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Nice one neighbour ...
