Brutha

Hi All, I'm using Autostakkert and waveSharp to create images of the Sun from my Seestar avi movies. I'm very happy with what I can get in the interior part of the Sun, but there seems to be an abrupt change to quite a blurry image as we get near to the edge. I've included two images, the one with red/green shows the parts I'm happy with / not happy with. I'm not totally sure where this is starting - but I have a suspicion it's Autostakkert - any ideas about how to troubleshoot? Thanks for any thoughts! EDIT: would like to resize these pics a bit smaller, but not sure how!

Ok, managed to sneak out for 5 minutes during lunch! Sun a bit livelier today - still some way to go to get the best out of the software, but happy with this one!

Thanks! Will play further!

Hi All, Have only had one clear day / night since I got my Seestar, so am now playing around with processing - all the astro programs are quite new to me so finding my feet a bit! This comes from a one minute AVI taken the other day through the provided solar filter: Stacked in Autostakkert Sharpened in waveSharp (bilateral filter which avoids bright lines at edge of sun) Colour adjusted and cropped in Photoshop What I'm wondering is if I've oversharpened it - it looks like the grain of the Sun is showing nicely (since I can also see detail around the sunspots in the top left). But maybe I am just sharpening noise in the image! Any thoughts? Thanks! EDIT: Oops, I think I used the wrong forum and it should have gone in "Imaging - Solar" - is it possible for some kind mod to move this? Thanks!

Received, thank you very much! No worries at all, about the wait, wasn't long at all!

One interesting note, is that there are many brands selling what appears to be exactly the same thing, for prices between about £20 and £50! Look for “LP-64” to see the range!

Perfect thanks! Not too worried, either is fine - something that doesn’t need huge numbers of subs would be a good start, M42, something like that!

Hi all, well my Seestar has arrived, and of course so has the bad weather! So, in the meantime I thought I'd have a go at learning the basics of Siril for stacking and image processing. Does anyone know of a set of Seestar subs shared on the web somewhere that I might use as an example to work on? Doesn't need to be 100s of frames, just enough to learn the process!

Thanks! Will do!

Will do, just wondered if there was a reasoning behind it! Actually I realised i hijacked the wrong thread, meant to put it in the main Seestar thread!

Hi All, have ordered my Seestar and looking forward to it arriving! One question in the meantime: I'm aware it has a "light pollution" filter which can be switched on or off. However, I live somewhere where we don't really have light pollution (nominally Bortle 1): are there still cases where I should leave the filter on? For example emission nebulae? Thanks!

Hehe, I have long wanted to do something similar as I’m also close to the sea, but in the UK the government guards the harmonic constants you need very jealously (because the tides depend a lot on the local seabed shape and have to be empirically measured)…. And I didn’t figure out an easy way to reverse engineer them from the short predictions they give for free!

Ah thanks for that! Yes, I am thinking of using a small stepper (maybe a 28-BYJ48, since as it has gears I can switch it off after moving it, and not use much power). Currently I am thinking of something like the pic show - I will rotate the whole bit in the middle over the course of the day (with the notch showing local solar time), then update the hands maybe once a day. But I haven't figured what to use to move the hands in the middle! Cheers

Yes, I read a lot of Gina’s posts, they were always interesting, and I was very sad to hear she had passed away, The picture you posted is very interesting - rather than just one large clock with lots of hands, probably a large clock with various small dials is the way to go - time for a ponder!

Hehe, this was exactly one of the inspirations!