The Sun - at last!

[David Smith]

Well it's been sunny with scattered cloud pretty much all day here. I spent a couple of hours out with the solar scopes this morning resulting in some 200 white light frames and several avi's from the PST. I haven't had chance to process the avi's yet but here is the stacked white light data. I had the bright idea of installing the latest version of my operating system last weekend and found out today that this has triggered a move to GIMP 2.8 (from 2.6). Seems my routine in GIMP is longer effective so for now I have just produced a greyscale image. I will play (argue) with GIMP later!

Edit: Err, title should have included Sun obviously but somehow lost that, sorry

[notaclue]

When observing today using Baader film on the telescope I never saw the two above the min ones in the upper part of the disk. Like to see how it move during the next few days over the surface now.

[David Smith]

Yes, will be interesting to see how this lot develop. Unfortunately the forecast make me think it will be another 2 weeks until my next opportunity to see it!

[chiltonstar]

I took a few quick pics this am, as I hadn't seen the Sun for a while......

This was one without scope using my Nikon 300mm f4 lens and Baader SF:-

Chris

[David Smith]

Nice. That's a good level of detail for the 300mm focal length. Is that a single frame or a stack?

[chiltonstar]

Nice. That's a good level of detail for the 300mm focal length. Is that a single frame or a stack?

Just one frame @f8, jpeg. I didn't take a stack as I thought the *** might disappear and not be seen again 'til Spring (Spring 2015 that is)....

Chris

[chiltonstar]

Interesting to see the change in a couple of days......

(D300, Nikon 300mm f4, 2xTC, Baader SF, 10x jpegs stacked in Registax.

Chris

[Mark at Beaufort]

David I have edited your title to include the 'Sun'.

Great solar photo by the way.

Mark

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

I have moved this to the Imaging - Solar section as it seems more appropriate, and will draw more attention from the imaging crowd. Very nice images, BTW!

[Montana]

Great images from everyone

Alexandra

[stem1989]

nice images people!