Pete Presland

Unfortunately I think Claire is long gone, she has not logged in since 2011 according to her status 🙂 

Always a treat to Mercury.

Incredible images, so good to see them in the mainstream press!

I am sure he will he back sometime, he might have forgot what site he posted on. Some excellent advice for when he returns 👌

Looking forward to this event, excellent imaging opportunity as well

Excellent use of an old chair, up cycling isn't it?

And Mars is going to be superb later this year

Not much chance of experiencing a blackout around our "neck of the woods" 🙂

Lovely report and image. I cant wait for my grandchildren to be old enough to enjoy the heavens.

A lovely winters scene, Orion really is a wonderful sight. 

Lets hope for some clear skies, should be interesting to see.

Amazing to think the "humble" bricks i played with as a child have morphed in to cinema films, computer games and fantastic items like this. What a product!

Live long and prosper!!! 🙂 

Very  nice level of detail there Avani, especially when you consider how far away from opposition we still are.

22 hours ago, Merlin66 said:

Pete,

I use a Coronado BF on my SM60 DS set up..... and yes the 1.25" nose piece on the ASI 174.

Nowadays I've added an ASI 1600MM as well.

 

Did you have any issues with vignetting because of the smaller diameter nose piece? I am thinking of upgrading from my DMK21au618 to a 174mm, even though i do own a 290mm.

I was also looking at this on Stellarium, fingers crossed for some clear skies.

WOW, that is some Solar aperture, not that 60mm is particularly small. Roll on cycle 25!

The weather forecast is not great, but i will be on the look out.

Lovely sharp capture, the phase showing very nicely.

On 22/01/2018 at 06:14, Merlin66 said:

OK, you're on the right track.

I use the ASI 174MM for solar - pixel size suits my set-up and the frame rates are FAST!!!

The newer ASI 178MM would be a good bet.

You'll need a USB3 connection and a fast SSD drive to collect the data (2-3Gb per session)

Acquisition and processing.....FireCapture or SharpCap will give you good AVI (or SER) file to allow stacking for quality. Registax 6 or Autostakker V2/V3 will do the necessary stacking and "tweaking"

Any photo imaging program (PainShopPro, PS etc. etc.) can be used to apply the colourisation....

http://www.firecapture.de/

http://www.sharpcap.co.uk/sharpcap

https://www.astronomie.be/registax/

http://www.astrokraai.nl/software/latest.php

Thread resurrection time 🙂 were you using a 1.25" nosepiece with the asi174mm camera/Lunt 50mm?

Hi welcome to SGL from Peter in Bedfordshire 

A fine looking disc. 

Interesting looking prom!

Very nicely captured. 

I knew the clouds rotated quickly,  I thought it was around 9 days. 4 days though would explain the big difference in the 2 images.