Sunspots 10-09-2011

[Avdhoeven]

Here are my first images taken with my ED110 of the sun. I used a herschelprism in combination with a solarcontinuum filter and a 2.5x powermate. Especially the granulation showed up quite nicely....

Thanks for watching...

[smerral]

Lovely shots. The herschel prism really seems to be the way to go.

[markt]

Cracking images! Your seeing must have been pretty decent to get images like that. I like the subtle colouring too!

More images again please!

[Merlin66]

Excellent results! That's what white light imaging is all about.

Well done...

The Herschel wedge is very good, but given the same seeing conditions I'd expect similar results from the Baader solar film.

It would be interesting to do a back to back, same telescope same location comparison.

[Bizibilder]

Exellent shots throuigh exellent seeing - I wish we could have that here!!

[Avdhoeven]

To be honest seeing was not so good at all. The afternoon I took the images it was very cloudy here, and I had to take the image through a layer of haze in the air. The 'secret' is partly in the processing I guess. I use the astra image deconvolution plugin for photoshop which is much better than wavelets in my opinion for lunar and solar images. Here is an image showing a raw single frame, the raw stack, a wavelet processed image and the result with deconvolution. I would say, draw your own conclusions