The Sun - 11th May 2013

[David Smith]

Tricky imaging today, wind, rain and lots of fast moving cloud. Eventually was blessed with a 20 minute break / thinning of the cloud so I grabbed a couple of hundred subs. Most were cloud afflicted but a handful were not and allowed me to put this image together.

20130511 by David_The_Bears_Fan, on Flickr

Pleased with the detail in at least part of the disk I pulled this crop from the main image.

20130511_Close_up by David_The_Bears_Fan, on Flickr

I still need to get the whole disk in focus but I can only focus on what I can see on the cameras screen at the moment. Received a new Sandisk Extreme card today (45mb/s variety) which has helped to sped up the capture process.

[Bizibilder]

Well done - that is a seriously big spot! Hopefully we can track it across the disc over the next week or so and get some decent images of it. Well done to get the gap in the clouds today!

[Steve Ward]

Nice to see you catch a gap . . .

I've found that I often have to do a 'multi-stack' approach when the regions of interest are spread far and wide like today , the in-built multi-align rarely works for me and I find that Reg seems to concentrate on the area in the align box.

I invariably manually align on a small distinct detail these days.

What I do is stack the selected subs a number of times , today for example I stacked three times , Top-Left , Bottom Right and Left Centre. I then restacked the 'sub-stacks' to give an image that showed detail in all the areas , just using the Top Left stack gave an image that was great on the new big spot but appeared un-focused elsewhere.

This may sound like a little long-winded approach , but if you're using only the very best frames it doesn't take that long.

[David Smith]

Thanks Steve will have a go later when the kids are in bed.

[JamesF]

Very nice. Well done for getting an image at all today. Looks like it's been tricky wherever you are in the UK.

James

[DrRobin]

Nice capture David. A very testing day.

Robin

[Montana]

Wonderful! that new AR is going to be a good photo target for the next 2 weeks

Alexandra

[sologuitarist61]

Lovely image!