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Hi Shamba, nice image you have captured there, lots of detail. You may benefit from taking flat frames and calibrating them with your main images. If you are capturing Avi and stacking in autostakkert then it’s pretty straight forward. Just give me a shout if you need more info.

Great shots once again.

I use a quark and asi174mm as above. My scope of choice is the William Optics Z61 if I am looking at the wider disc or putting together a mosaic. However, I have also started using the WO Z103ED for more close up work.

Second session this year with the old current bun. Would have finished a lot sooner but I left some dodgy settings in place on SharpCap and couldn't find the Sun for ages. Any hoo, here are two pictures. Both are compiled of two images, the first capturing the surface detail of the sun 10ms exposure and a gain of 40. The second captured the prominence, same exposure but the gain has been ramped up to see the prom, effectively overexposing the surface. Both are then over layed in photoshop using the 'difference' layer setting coupled with some sharpening and levels adjustments. Taken with my William Optics Z61, Daystar Quark Chromosphere, SharpCap, AutoStakkert2 and butchered in the usual way in Photoshop. Enjoy.

Great images Wouter. Very nice work. Those mares look so smooth it just calls out to have a something drop into them.

Came to the conclusion that if you want to pay top dollar for an observation chair then just type “astronomy chair” in google and watch your wallet empty. However, type “ironing chair” and suddenly things become a bit more sensible price wise. See example below; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leifheit-Multi-Seat-Niveau-Chrome/dp/B000VJE5SI/ref=sr_1_2?s=kitchen-appliances&ie=UTF8&qid=1534702409&sr=1-2&keywords=Ironing+chair