The Sun 9 February 2013 white light

[Bizibilder]

Clear skies this morning so I managed to get a few frames - 59/128 with 24 flats taken:

[Steve Ward]

Lurvly Roger ,

Seeing was pants at 05:00 when I was playing at imaging Saturn , but really good four hours later . . . . makes a change . . .

[keithatrochdale]

Hi Roger

Could you run us through exactly what you do and use to get these great results please?

[Steve Ward]

Try Rogers tutorial here . . .

[Bizibilder]

That's a really good tutorial !!! :p :p :p :p

Pics above were with my 120mm Evostar achromat, stopped to 100mm, with Baader film, Canon 1100D, ISO 100 and 1/800 sec. Flats were taken with the same set-up but the camera switched from Manual (so I can use the lappy to control it via EOS Utility) to Av - so the camera takes an automatic exposure (these flats - 24 of them - were 1/500 sec) with the scope pointing at "blue sky" with a piece of 3mm thick, 30% opacity, white acrylic sheet over the full aparture (and the Baader film removed).

Master flat and stacking in Registax5 and my "action" in PS CS5.

[Steve Ward]

[keithatrochdale]

Thanks Roger.

[DrRobin]

Nice shot of the morning sun and always like your overlays identifying the sun spots. A welcome return no doubt?

[Montana]

Great images looks like the spots have gone further away from the equator again.

Alexandra

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Nice images. Better detail than I have managed so far.