White light Sun, 2nd April

[JamesF]

Well, it's probably the first cloudless night for four months, but I'm almost dead on my feet and I've just got time to post this before I call it a day...

The seeing wasn't great this afternoon, but the lack of cloud made getting the 120 subs fairly straightforward. Same as usual, 1/1000th @ ISO100 using the 450D and 127 Mak, preprocessed in PIPP and the best 4% stacked in Registax v6. Still have a dust bunny to get rid of. Unfortunately I seem to have only moved it rather than got rid of it thus far.

My daughter thinks the big new AR looks like a lion and justifies this because it even has a tail

James

[Steve Ward]

Nice work James .

Can't beat a bit of fresh air and the Sun on your back to make you feel better . . .

Get well soon . . .

[sologuitarist61]

Lovely image James and tell your daughter that she is absolitely right! Hope you feel better soon.

[DrRobin]

Nice shot James, lots of detail. I see what your daughter means about 'the Lion', but it must be lying down as I can't see the feet.

Robin

[Bizibilder]

Well done James.

[Montana]

Superb shot I think your daughter has a wild imagination

Alexandra

[AstroWolvy]

i like it, my test with reflex solar capture was not even presentable, how do you do?

[JamesF]

Interesting idea using a reflex capture device.

There are I guess two really important things to handle. The first is to get the focus spot on. I run APT and use the on-screen live view zoomed in to tweak the focus until it's as close as I feel I can get it. It's worth taking time over this. Then getting enough exposures to be able to stack a good number to produce the final image is important. I prefer to have 40 to 60 images to stack, but start by taking 120 and filtering out the poorer ones using PIPP and Registax's quality assessment.

James