First Ha image

[Albireo380]

I have just got a Solarmax II 60 BF10 and with the weather being so good this weekend have been trying it out.

I am please with the views of prominences, filaments and granulation, but imaging was in my mind when I got the scope.

My first image is attached. Nothing great (in comparison to many other images on this forum), but I am pleased with it as a first, single DSLR image.

From what I can tell (as a beginner solar imager) there is another learning curve ahead of me.

Tom

[markt]

Good first image!

[Photosbykev]

I hope you don't mind but I had a quick look at the image. There is very little detail in the red channel which tells me the image is overexposed for any surface detail. All of the detail in a Ha image is held in the red channel. I normally shoot two images one exposed for the prom and one for the surface typically they are about 1-2 stops difference. On the upside the focus is pretty good and the image is better than my first attempt

I've split the image into the component colours and ended up using what detail there was in in the G and B channels to create a surface and the red channel for the proms and produced this recoloured version. The noise in the background is from processing the low res 8 bit jpg.

[Albireo380]

Cheers Kev. Your processing of the image is much better than mine. I will take your advice about exposures and see what i can do over the next few sunny days.

Tom