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19 hours ago, bosun21 said:
Beautiful image and great processing. I have never attempted a mosaic before. Perhaps I should start considering them and read up on their procedure.
Thanks! It's not too tricky, so long as you captur with enough overlap. I usually align the camera with the mount axis' for easier panning
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22 hours ago, morimarty said:
Some absolute stunning detail in this mosaic. I would urge everyone to zoom in for a closer look.
Thank you, and yes zoom in!
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On 26/05/2024 at 11:17, Planetary Observer said:
Cracking image
Cheers!
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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!
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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
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15 minutes ago, GordonD said:
Oh that really is very good. Well done.
Thanks! 🤩
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2 hours ago, Rusted said:
Wonderful detail at a remarkable image scale!
It was just like being there. ☺️
Thank you!
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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! 🙂
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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
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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
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52 minutes ago, Kon said:
Beautiful image! Very nicely processed.
Thank you!
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29 minutes ago, sheffieldsunwatcher said:
Wow, yes, that's excellent.
Many thanks!
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7 minutes ago, Dave Smith said:
Brilliant.
Dave
Thanks Dave!
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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
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2 hours ago, bish said:
That's fantastic
Thank you!
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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
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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
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45 minutes ago, LukeTheNuke said:
Wow, that's stunning. Well done! So much to see.
Thank you!
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Lovely! The colour pops almost 3D at full size
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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
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Animation, 01/08/24
in Imaging - Solar
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After a long streak of cloud cloud and more cloud it was lovely to spend some time imaging on the 1st. This animation spans 2hr 10 min early afternoon
A few passing clouds gave some very rough frames, but I used linear fit to match the brightness and went with them incuded - although the quality drops are obviously
(130 frames, looped)
Crop
Bonus 2 panel mosaic, colourised