Solar white light full disc - 13th Feb

[Gina]

Taken with 1100D DSLR on ED80 with 2x ED Barlow in APT with live view video. 90 frames stacked in Registax 5.

[MjrTom]

Very nice image Gina

[Gina]

Thank you

[smerral]

Good one Gina.

[Zul]

Great!

[Bizibilder]

Well done.

Now to be picky: The image is a bit overexposed which is why you can't see surface detail and the spots are beginning to get swamped in the glare.

Try setting up using ISO 100 and something like 1/320sec so you can see the Sun's image on the laptop (don't try to use the camera screen as you are fighting the glare of the Sun and can't see a thing!) Focus and align etc then turn the exposure down to at least 1/1000 sec - you should barely be able to see the image on the lappy. Take a shot (JPEG) and open it to see what you have - you should be able to see surface granulation quite easily (put it at 100%). If not then drop the exposure and try again. I've put a crop of a 100% single exposure for you - I hope you can see what I mean. (Look for the little "spotlets" on the left of the image - you need to capture these if they are about!). Hope this is helpful to you - you mentioned getting the surface details in another post.

[Gina]

Thank you Yes, that's very useful

And thank you to the previous posters

[markt]

Good shot! You're getting there

[Montana]

Yes superb Gina! I look forward to many more

Regards

Alexandra,

[sheri_barri]

You are certainly getting there! I am amazed and the focusing ability on the sun with the DSLRs capable of live-view. Have you tried connecting the DSLR to a laptop for a larger image to work with?