detached prom 11-9-2011

[devilgas]

ok, first go at putting an image on SGL. up early to watch rugby, it was sunny. quick chimp look through the PST. saw a detached prom. ok, time to set it all up properly.

i'm still struggling with getting decent detail as seen in others work. probably down to using a dslr? constructive / destructive comments welcome as is any advice on post processing.

anyway, it was the first decent detached prom i'd seen.....

[Photosbykev]

nice capture are you using all the RGB channels or splitting the image into RGB channels and then just processing the Red channel as a monochrome image?

[devilgas]

hi kev,

just using red channel for mono. the above image is a composite of 2 exposures - 1 for the proms, the other for the surface 'detail'. pp done in photoshop. false colour applied using individual channels in curves control.

i'd upped the iso on the 40d to 400 as it was a bit windy so wanted a faster shutter. was using the cemax 12mm ep. i've definately hit an impasse on my capturing / pp now as most images come out similar to the above.

[Photosbykev]

Before I switched to using a DMK41 I used a Canon DSLR with a Baader Hyperion 8-24mm zoom EP which gave me some reasonable results using this routine PST Solar Imaging PhotosbyKev

If you can shoot multiple images of the proms and disk detail you might get better results pushing them through Registax as separate groups and then combining them

[devilgas]

thanks kev! looks like i need to suss out registax and the wavelet function and spend a few more £'s on the baader ep.

[Photosbykev]

even putting the single images through the wavelet process will bring out more detail

[devilgas]

ok, struggling big time with registax. do you know of any tutorials on the web that'll help me through it? have a number of images that i can stack, but don't know where to start with registax (downloaded ages ago, but was way over my head)

[ollypenrice]

Can't help with DSLR processing but don't beat yourself up! Very nice disk-prom combinig and a well timed capture.

Olly

[markt]

Good detatched prom!

My advice would be to just try and nail the focus, you look slightly soft on it to me. Definitely persevere with registax, the results are worth it.