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9 minutes ago, xtreemchaos said:

great shots Mate, todays the first day ive had free in a while and wall to wall cloud. thanks for the view. charl

Thanks Charl .

Just set up for today, sun lotion applied time to cook under the cover.

Reasonable display @ 2-30 am 15-6 visible to the NE at the moment.

Not incline dto set up the camera as I'm too tired.

Start with small refractor and work up.

Yor kit is more suited to planetary or high res lunar.

I think it is moisture ingress under the coating.

Even if you have to pay for one they are not that expensive.

Full disk 60 mm lunt D/S with RFT ZWO 178 cam

Do the clicky thing for full res.

9 minutes ago, Davey-T said:

Got a solar transit close by later today but got to go visit wife in hospital shortly.

Dave

Hope you have a good visit.

Thanks Dave.

I have a lunar one from last month somewhere I keep meaning to edit.

6 minutes ago, maw lod qan said:

Excellent capture.

If the transit only took a second I guess you didn't have time to scratch your head any!!

Thanks

Not really -No🌞

The clouds parted just in time.

Slowed to 2 fps, actual event happened in just over 1 second.

I will return to this when I remember how to process the video.

A crop from the full disc with the Lunt 60mm

A little more zoomed in with the quark on the the FS102.

I finally had an afternoon to be able to run through the tuning earlier this week.

1 hour ago, bob-c said:

Nice shots Steve.

Thanks Bob.

1 hour ago, xtreemchaos said:

great shots mate, i did have a look this morrning but the seeing was like a bath of milk full of frog eggs so didnt bother with trying to catch anything. charl. charl.

Thanks Charl.

My solar kit has stayed in the hutch today as the skies have looked milky all day.

I have watched and enjyed them over the last year or so .

There has been some excellent info for most astronomers.

I prefer the sunday evening and a move to once a month or once every couple of months would suit.

Good luck, please remember to take time to "look" as well as taking images.

IIRC I used the 50mm.

Lunt 60mmD/S RFT ZWO cam

Eveing capture in poor seeing.

Do the clicky thing for full res.

Nice one Charl.

rumbles of thunder and showers  have kept me in today.

I also missed the last one.

In the part at the bottom you have cropped off there is a list of images?

double click on each and apreview will appear in the main window. A

DDP can be altered by using the ? and up it to the 30 setting it will certainly boost the preview , but only on screeen you must save it to alter it B

I find it useful to tick the DDP at its lowest setting before saving.

They laugh at me, esp. the flailing hand hunting for the focuser or tuner.

Whats this sun thing you mention ?