johnfosteruk

A worthy winner for sure. Terrific image.

I'll do my best John.

It's lovely. I hope there's more to follow.

It was bootiful in the vis too Chris

Thanks Charl.

Could prove difficult.....

You know you want to Dave

Cheers Dave, I'm done with it now so I'll send it eastwards.

Thanks Michael, fingers crossed and other such superstitious hokem

me too Thanks Charl.

Cloudy all morning in Plymouth until 10:15, then a clear patch so 40 frames at 1/1250, ISO 100. Cropped and Aligned in Pipp, stacking and wavelets in Registax (Registax seems to behave better for stacking with data from the wedge). Finished in Photoshop. Mono Mono Invert Pseudo Colour Pseudo Colour Invert

Nice captures through the cloud Charl, glad you're still paying attention!!

After eventually capturing full disk data this morning I decided to try the wedge with a 2x Barlow. It was a bit of a rush and I only managed to capture 2 decent frames between the clouds once I'd got focussed. I gave up capturing any more as with the amplification, clouds, undriven mount, focussing was difficult but I have to say I'm happy. Can't wait to see what it can do with some proper clear sky. I've never been able to capture anything like this with Baader film so I'm very happy. 2 frames at 1/1000s ISO 100 (without the polariser), cropped and aligned in Pipp, stacked and (aggressive considering it's only 2 frames) wavelets in Registax and finished in Photoshop. Mono Pseudo Colour

Well is the answer. See and

One of these. Yesterday. Happy.

I'm very much liking the look of this. Thanks for the review John.

Nicely sketched Mike considering the aircraft Vomit.

Nowt as fancy as owmuches or Paul's but here's my twopenneth. First on a cheap webcam and the newt next at a dslr job with the frac. Last November I think

Great idea. Do sketches count?

Thanks Ian

You have the images that trump mate, I didn't see the Mercury transit at all thanks to work n clouds, all I could do was dip into Ibbo's live stream periodically.

Well why not, twas my first year of Solar imaging too. Very much a learner so don't laugh. Or laugh if you like, I can take it, it very much boggles my brain that I'm capable of doing any of this imaging stuff Onwards to better things in 2017! In no particular order. 11/07/16. My very first Solar image (not that you'd know if I didn't tell you what it was), iPhone up to the EP, took some video and somehow managed to get it to stack. 08/10/16 I think. AR2599 close up. My first decent close up. 09/08/16. Lots of spots, well, for me at the time anyway. 08/10/2016. Really good day for seeing. 01/09/16. Rather like this one too. And a closeup the same day.

That's a great find John, I'm very envious I always have an eye out at the car boot for scopes 'n' bins but to date I've found nothing. A friend of the family found a Tal-1 recently which he gave to our niece and I get views with that so I mustn't complain really. Good luck cleaning her up.

I don't know why but I've not paid any attention to this thread, a wonderful collection of images that really push the boundaries of what the equipment can do, amazing

Well caught Helen, welcome to the club