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well thay said it was going to be 100% clear this morning, so I got 90% fast moving cloud, managed to get a few vids none without cloud in them, not the best of shots ive had to do a lot of photoshop magic on them. WL is blank apart from some snakey stuff on the on coming limb, HA theres a few filaments near the top of the disc, no big proms. kit ed80,quark chromo, asi120mc, for HA, 120mm f5, lunt wedge, 1200d for WL. thanks for looking and I hope you have better skys than me. charl. oncoming limb. fillaments. prom 1 near 6 oclock. prom 2 near 1
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Hi I'm using a quark chrome H-alpha filter on a skywatcher ST80 and I want to put a pre-filter in front to dump some of the heat. To this end I put a Baader 2" IR cut filter in the train and more or less lost the surface detail. Can anyone recommend a filter for this job and maybe explain why the filter had the effect it did ? Also, my quark seems to be on-band with the knob turned to 1 o' clock when previously it was at about 6. All I did was store it indoors over the winter. Has this happened to anybody else ? Ambient is about 15 to 20 degrees in the info. Finally, do p
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nice and sunny here in south wales thismorrning, seeing quite good too. kit- ed80 , quark chromo, asi120mc for ha, 1200d, 120mm f5 frac for whitelight. thanks for looking and I hope you all have clear skys. charl. WL mono. WL coloured. AR2655. AR2654. PROM 1 PROM 2 and a bit closer 800x800.
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nice and sunny here in south wales today, seeing started off good then dropped about 9am to just above poor when I wanted to do a bit of vis. AR2656 is nice , not a very big spot but theres loads going on around it. theres a fat filament just at the bottom of it, theres a few mid size proms at 10 and 2 oclock, and a few small ones around the disc. kit- ed80, quark chromo, asi120mc for HA, 120mm f5 frac, lunt wedge, 1200d for WL. Hope you all have clear skys. thanks for looking, charl. AR2656. More towards the center. whats left of the other AR.
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Nice and sunny here in south wales, cold wind, seeings poor. not the best of shots, took 3000 frame vids and could only use 10%. in the bits when its not fazing so much the ARs look very nice but its not steady for long. same old kit. thanks for looking , clear skys, charl. AR2653 AR2651-52 PROM 1 PROM 2 FILLAMENT. MONO WL. COLOURED WL. closer, dodgey shot. Ive still got 5 more vids to sort so if there better ill update. and a artistic one to finnish.
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Some ha (falso colour & monchrome) and white light of the active regions. Now all I've got to do it find the best tuning setting for the quark and improve my processing - all advice welcome. Imaging details:- Solar images - H-Alpha taken with Daystar Quark, white light through Baader Solar Filter. Telescope - Opticstar 127mm Triplet Apo with 2" UV/IR cut ERF Camera - ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool Software - Sharpcap, Registax, Photoshop AR2651 AR2653 Thanks in advance Neil
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seeings not so good today , very fine cloud hovering in front of sol and fazy too, AR2645 has nearly gone, its been a great AR and I'm sad to see it go. 2648 is a poor replacement I hope it develops. kit- ed80, Quark chromo, asi120mc, about 300 frames in each shot . thanks for looking and I wish you clear skys, charl. ar2648. ar2645. wider prom 1 invert prom 2 invert. ive 16 more vids so there might be some updates... Heres the other half of my imaging team looking out for clouds... and n
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a few HA shots, not the best of seeing here, sols very fazy with loads of cloud, might of over processed a bit. but Hay I'm happy to get anything in HA. kit, ED80, Quark chromo, asi12mc. 50% reducer. about 200 to 250 frames each shot. thanks for looking, hope you all have clear skys, charl. AR2648' AR2645 this is the max mag I can get without those darn lines. invert prom near 9oclock. invert AR2648 Closer up without the reducer, see how I get the lines at the bottom without it, don't get them if I don't conver
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After a hiatus of over a year, I finally managed to dust off my Quark. Here are my first baby steps. I managed to catch a bit of the activity from AR2644, it was a lot quieter 30 mins later (animations), and some stills of AR2645, AR2648. Still got some white light stuff to process. And now of course I need to learn the dark arts of Solar processing. This is much harder than lunar/planetary work! and seems to take loads more disk space. A question for the experts - advice on animations, how long for each video (time or frames) and interval between them? thank
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very very cloudy here got these pics by the skin of me teeth, darn forcast wrong again , the new AR is looking very nice in the vis in the clear bits, there looks to be 1 spot but could be a few pores aswell. kit- ed80, ERF, Quark chromo, asi 120mc. thanks for looking and I hope you have better skys than me, charl. AR2650. Wider AR2648. Wider. prom not very good image, the cloud wouldn't play fair.
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From today, 09-04-2017, an afternoon capture showing you can get half decent seeing even this late in the day. Done on the laptop so not sure if the quality is really good enough yet, desktop later. Usual setup :- AZEQ6-GT, 152mm TecnoSky, 135mm Baader D-ERF, Quark Chromosphere, PG IMX174. 4 Pane Mosaic, captures were 800 x 768 ROI, best 30% stacked from each 20 second capture of 3300 frames. PS: I don't normally process on the laptop but the SSD is a lot quicker than the Desktop PC & with 400Gb of data it's too much 'porting' it over so I hope this comes out ok. Thanks for l
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nice and sunny first thing, but that darn thin cloud is still there. sols gone very quite in WL, theres a little bit going on in HA, only the one prom. kit ed80 Quark,asi120mc for HA, 120mm, lunt wedge, 1200d for WL. theres a bit of action on the out going limb,ar2645 has a prom coming from it, cloud was worse when I got my shot, hope Ian gets a animation of it. thanks for looking, clear skys , charl. WL ar2648 ar2648 and filla'. ar2645. close but by this time the cloud had got bad so could only get 240 usable frames. c
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cracking skys thismorrning, tiptop seeing, but I'm feeling under the weather, think ive got flu, so just a qwick process, ive still 145gb to do but I'm leave it for today my head fells like its in the shed. kit ed80, quark chromo, asi 120mc for HA, 120mm f5 frac, lunt wedge, 1200d for WL. hope you all have these wonderfull skys, thanks for looking. charl. WL MONO. AR2659. AR2659 Again diff frame. AR2659. Artistic I could not help myself... proms in no order. these have just been staxed no other processing 1 2
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Nice bit of late afternoon clarity after dodging the clouds all morning. Seeing improved dramatically after 3:30pm which is unusual for me. Starting to get the hang of mosaics, need better captures around the edge of the disc.
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Clear skies early this morning, AR2661 looking nice. There might be a full disk to follow later today (100Gb to process !) ED80 DS Pro - Quark chromospehere - ASI174MM
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Sunday afternoon's weather was better than expected, so I decided to give the Quark its second run out... Thought it was a good chance to run it from my RavPower LiPoly battery pack that I use to power the Nexus WiFi device and occasionally the iPad running SkySafari (rather than the mains adapter). Useful to know for when mains isn't available when doing outreach and the like. My mate finds that one of his packs turns off periodically - when the Quark has heated up and then stops drawing power... note also new, matching 'red/black' micro USB cable (a single pound from Amazon... all the w
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its 80% clear but* seeing is bad, sols breakdancing its fazing so bad, slim pickings detail wise. theres a nice prom at 2 oclockish, AR2664 is heading off the disc. kit- ed80 , quark chromo, asi120mc for HA, 120mm , lunt wedge, 1200d for WL. hope the seeing inproves for everybody. thanks for looking, clear skys. charl. fila. AR2664. PROM at 2 oclock ish. better vid took earlier than above. poor WL but best I could do with the seeing. 28 frames.
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So, I tested my newly acquired DMK41 mono cam, both with and without a nosepiece reducer. What a difference from QHY 5LII- no Newton's rings. Easy focusing, and better frame rate Quark chromosphereTS 60ED on iOptron SmarteqDMK41AU04.AS
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A wide(r) angle view of both ARs on the disk ASIO1600MM-Cool at full frame, Quark, Opticstar 127mmApo, Baader 35nm filter as ERF MY, my - hasn't AR2673 changed over the last 5 days! And a close up of 2674 ASIO1600MM-Cool at 1/4 frame ROI, Quark, Opticstar 127mmApo, Baader 35nm filter as ERF I tried an animation of 2674, but quality wasn't good enough - image quality, colour, brightness all varied by frame. Any hints and tips on how to improve are very welcome. Regards Neil
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heads up theres a nice Proms on the on coming limb. could this be something round the limb like a AR ? hope so because sol is too quiet wl wise. very cloudy here so I havnt got a look at the otherside of the disc but I'm still trying , ill update if I get any more shots. thanks for looking. charl. mono coloured prom off going limb upper. I'm finished for the day ,cloud is too bad now. coloured. and the first prom with a prom nearer the top. mono. coloured.
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Here's an attempt from today. I was blessed with clear skies almost all day so tried my hand. This is using a Skywatcher st80 80mm f/4.5 with omegon t2F-m48M adapter and then the quark screwed down tight to the end. I am try8ing to get to the level of detail seen here in others. These images are 20 secs between 70 and 100 fps using firecapture and a ZWL120 mono. Focusing is as good as I can make it by hand. There's still a few dust spots left but other than that, any tips? Active region Large prominence Mike
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Daystar Quark Chromosphere Review – A New Era in Amateur Solar Astronomy? Until recently, it’s been very expensive if you want to view or image the Sun in the hydrogen-alpha wavelength using a relatively large aperture such as 100mm. For example, a Lunt 100 dedicated h-alpha scope with B1800 blocking filter and Feathertouch focuser is likely to cost in excess of £7,000. In 2014, things suddenly changed. Daystar Instruments, who have over 40 years of experience in solar filters, released a new product, the Quark. Costing less than £1,000, this new type of device can be used with many- 34 replies
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I've been using a Quark chromosphere now since May and just wanted to share what an absolute delight this piece of equipment is (albeit I never seem to have enough cloud free sky to get it right on band). I had been using a ST80 but felt this was lacking and not a great match for the Quark in terms of focal length. I've since moved to a 120mm refractor and hope the images show how capable the Quark is.
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Apologies for uploading a lot of 'old' data, no time at the time to go through all of it & have only just done so. Some ok some not so great but thought I would share them as our star is pretty quite at the moment with surface action. Thanks for looking. 399.tif
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07-09-2016 Tecnosky 152mm refractor, 135mm D-ERF, Quark Chromoshpere & the Point Grey IMX174 on the AZEQ6 GT
