Solar Ha Mosaic 14 August

[smerral]

I did 20 captures with the spc900 and barlow lens and the PST, 10 captures for the proms, and then spent the rest of the day processing. I'm still learning but these are the results. I also took a close-up with the Tal x3 of the large prominence on the southern limb.

[dave1978]

Awesome, i really must get round to some solar viewing one day.

[smerral]

Thanks Dave...what started me off on solar were the long summer days here in the north of Scotland....

[Dave Smith]

Those are incredible with just a PST

How did you manage to stitch them without the joins showing? What program do you use? I have been very unsuccessful in doing that - so much so that I am dreaming of getting a DMK41 so that the whole disc can be done in one go.

I like the first image best as it shows the limb darkening nicely. I can see what you are doing with the third image but am not so keen on the limb "lightening"

Dave

[smerral]

Those are incredible with just a PST

How did you manage to stitch them without the joins showing? What program do you use? I have been very unsuccessful in doing that - so much so that I am dreaming of getting a DMK41 so that the whole disc can be done in one go.

I like the first image best as it shows the limb darkening nicely. I can see what you are doing with the third image but am not so keen on the limb "lightening"

Dave

Thanks a lot Dave. Yes I agree with you: in the cold light of day the first image is still the best - difficulty to achieve consistency across the disc with the PST. The program I used for the stitch was Autopano Giga 2.5 - Home | Image-stitching software for Windows, Mac, Linux | Kolor

[Dave Smith]

Ouch - that does seem rather expensive but has certainly done a good job with your image. I've book marked it for further consideration. Thanks.

Dave

[Photosbykev]

Very nice mosaics, Autopano is a good package but Microsoft ICE seems to work pretty well on the mosaics as well.