Yawning Angel

12 hours ago, Kon said:

Insane amount of details. Nice processing as always.

Thanks! My Quark has some nonuniformity but with careful flat generation it cleans up

12 hours ago, Hals said:

Absolutely top drawer work Alex 👍

Thank you! Your comment cheered me up on this rainy morning!

Have a look at the Sika liquid roofing options : Sika UK. It's not gloss, but has a range of colours etc and is designed for awkward shapes. I have it on my flat roofed roll-off

Call them for proper technical advice 

As suggested by @TakMan I've slowed it down somewhat. also added the earth at scale 🙂

15 minutes ago, GordonD said:

Oh that really is very good. Well done.

Thanks! 🤩

2 hours ago, Rusted said:

Wonderful detail at a remarkable image scale! 

It was just like being there. ☺️

Thank you! 

20 minutes ago, TakMan said:

Very good Alex - despite what you say about your seeing, the detail throughout has held up really strongly - the spicules  especially….  and that’s from a capture over midday - not nice and early or late on when seeing (for me anyway) is usually better…
Personally I slowed your movie down to half speed on the iPhone and found it even better to view!

How long was each capture and % used in general)?

I don’t think a lot of folks (who don’t do solar) appreciate the effort that does into a solar animation of this quality.

As for my own solar imaging…. ‘We’ cleaned the garage out yesterday as I’d already agreed to… 7 hrs including trips to the local tip - great timing hey!

Damian

Thanks!

The captures were 15 seconds limited then wait 45 second using SharpCap. It got around 2300 (5ms and 158 fps) in that time. 10% stacked as a batch in AS!4. I think the default output from Photoshop has it at 30fps, but I might try a slower version at your suggestion

A tidy garage gives you more room for telescopes! 🙂

55 minutes ago, Kon said:

Excellent animation and the prominence looks really nice and delicate.

Thank you! I was quite surprised it came out reasonable as the seeing was far from steady

53 minutes ago, callisto said:

Mesmerising 😵‍💫 

Thanks for sharing 👍

Thanks! Happy you liked it

48 minutes ago, TakMan said:

Cracking image - quite like the colour choice as well !

Cheers! I keep meaning to save the process for colourising so I can be more consistent

52 minutes ago, Kon said:

Beautiful image! Very nicely processed.

Thank you!

29 minutes ago, sheffieldsunwatcher said:

Wow, yes, that's excellent.

Many thanks!

7 minutes ago, Dave Smith said:

Brilliant. 

Dave

Thanks Dave!

24 panel mosic

APM107 / x2 Powermate / PlayerOne Mars-Cii

Stacked in AS!4.11, sharpened in PixInsight, mosaiced in ICE then cleaned up in Photoshop

Captured on 19th, just before setting off the timelapse I also posted. This is a composite of surface and limb

APM107 / Daystar Quark

Taken under variable seeing, from Lancashire. This was from 11am till 3pm, 1 stack captured per minute

APM107 / Daystar Quark

Stacked with AS!4.11, sharpened with PixInsight. Aligned in imPPG and final assembly in Photoshop

2 hours ago, bish said:

That's fantastic 

Thank you!

Imaged on Saturday between 2pm and 3pm. 87 captures, 3000 frame each, 20% stacks

Tech: APM 107, Daystar Quark, PlayerOne Apollo-M @ 5ms x 100gain, 148fps

1 hour ago, Ags said:

I think that’s a great improvement!

What was the imaging scope / camera combination?

Thank you!

APM107 / 700mm + Flattener & ASI1600mm. Baader filters

I captures 5hr 20min of HaLRGB on M51 last year. For want of some data, I've had another crack at it:

2024, cropped

2024, full FOV

2023 process, crop

45 minutes ago, LukeTheNuke said:

Wow, that's stunning. Well done! So much to see.

Thank you!

Lovely! The colour pops almost 3D at full size

14 minutes ago, John_D said:

😁 What taking the individual images did you reposition the telescope manually each time?

Yes, a manual slew each time. I eyeball a surface feature near the edge I'm moving towards, then slew till it's in the equivalent position on the other side. This gives me plenty of overlap for ICE to align the segments. You can see the overlap in these folder thumbnails

7 hours ago, WestCoastCannuck said:

Well....  now THAT is just wonderfully insane.   I absolutely love it and I salute you for your attempting it...  and best yet,  succeeding!   A wonderful image.   You can see some panels here and there that suffered a little from variable seeing...  but not many!   Your seeing mostly held for the whole thing!  Fabulous!   I hope to do something similar one day with my own C11.  :))))))

 

Mike

Thank you! I was amazed that my seeing held up as well as it did for the mosaic. I looks forward to seeing your rendition, Mike!

20 minutes ago, John_D said:

Fantastic. That should be printed and hung on the wall 😁

Thanks! I could almost wallpaper the house with it 🙂

On a whim, I mounted the C11 last night intending to do a bit of a shakedown of the setup after adding a new focus motor and powerbox.

I got carried away.

47 panels, 500 frames each. C11, ProPlanet 642 filter with the asi178mm

Stacked in AS!4.0.11, Mosaic in MS ICE, processed PixInsight and PS

Click (34mb just under 12000 x 12000)

On 15/04/2024 at 11:57, Adreneline said:

Interesting to see what you've achieved - I am currently imaging the exact same thing and have amassed 150m of R, G and B and 90m of Lum - it's a challenge.

I think I prefer your Medium Iris but your Bold dust/background.

Adrian

Thank you! I'll be redoing it from scratch when I add some more integration time, and I agree that there is a balance somewhere between those two.