Ibbo!

Nice prom image.

Just proves that it is vital we all take care when imaging the sun.

Just had a drop of 2 of rain that is not supposed to happen.

Nice see some CaK imaging again.

200mm SCT and ZWO178 cam with ADC

29 minutes ago, Nigella Bryant said:

That's great, many thanks, much appreciated. 

If you get stuck give me a shout.

Only prob with this method is you loose the spicules ther must be a way to sort it out

Oh i did get a few hours in 🛌

3 minutes ago, xtreemchaos said:

thanks Steve, same here id didnt hit the sack untill 3am the night before , i nearly missed it myself mate. charl.

3am 😯 thats early i looked up and noticed i was 5-30 am.

A bit like a winter imaging sess.

I should have stopped up and got the sol kit out.

10 hours ago, Nigella Bryant said:

Many thanks 

I collect 2 sets of data one for the disc and up the gan to get the proms.

I stack in AS3.

The disc is sharpened in imppg .

Then into PS

Open your best disc and a close in time prom image

I do any cosmetics like clone stamp to remove any dust bunnies, stretching and final sharpening of the disc

Also I usually drop the gamma a using  

image—adjustments- exposure

to about 0.85 ish

To the prom image I do a stretch in levels to bring up the proms (if need be ) and drop the black point to get a good background

Back to the surface disc

using  the magic  wand tool click the background  (with a tolerance of between 20 and 50 in my case) this should give the “marching ants” round the edge but crop the proms if any are showing)

select – inverse

select-modiy-smooth (I use 10 but yours will vary)

select- modify-contract (I use 2 to bring the ants just onto the disc)

copy  and paste onto the prom disc (ctrl C thenC trl V)

use the move tool on the cropped surface disc to align with the prom image disc

then use

edit –free transform

to resize the surce disc  to fit the prom disc (I usually do it at “fit to screen” then zoom in to tidy it up)when happy with that click the “tick” in tool bar just above the image

flatten the layer and crop to tidy the edges and centre you image

save as a mono

image –mode- RGB

I then use a saved curve  to colour the image

After i finished imaging staurn this morning I put an eyethingy in the end of the scope (but don't ell anybody) and had red fringe and blue fringe and thought you idiot use the ADC it is set for imaging and lo and behold the fringing vanished as if by magic even with x285

10 hours ago, Nigella Bryant said:

Cool disk, how do you add prom image to disk image? I've photoshop but not worked out how. My set up is only single stack 60mm lunt but shows a little of the same feature's. 

I will write it out later today if I get my jobs done.

Great capture Charl.

I missed it, maybe I should have gone to bed earlier istead of processing jove while silly o'clock.

Escorted jupiter into e garage and now doing samefor saturn.

Damper than last couple of outings but seeing vastly improved.

7 minutes ago, Davey-T said:

Missed the prom like me then 

Dave

Yep 😖😫

Another go with the low down beast.
5 short sers chopped up due to cloud derotated in Winjupos to give me an L and layered onto the centre RGB image.

200mm SCT ZWO178 ADC

Thanks.

Not sure I quite got on band today  seeing was a bit choppy.

60mm Lunt with coroardo ds Chameleon am

101 frames prodded and poked in PS

Click for full res

looks like I will miss out as the cloud supposed to come back at around 23-00.

But they have been known to be wrong.

28 minutes ago, Nigella Bryant said:

Thanks, all a learning curve. 

It sure is

yes that is better

My advice would be to pack the x5 away untill it is much higher in our skies.

Also try stacking less frames, recently I have used 5 to 10% of 3000 frames.

Thanks folks .

Nearly a months break.

I will have my prefered collection software running again for the the next attempt.

53 minutes ago, Pete Presland said:

Always worth the practice, you never know when that giant A/R or Prom is going to suddenly appear! 🙂

True but I am not holding my breath.

Thanks folks.

 I keep threathening to run them through winjupos and see if I can get anything else.