White light Sun, 19th May

[JamesF]

Today was pretty much completely clouded out until 5pm and even though there were patches of clear blue it was still hideously hazy when I was setting up. The seeing was so awful that I was pretty much guessing at focus and I was pushed for time before the Sun sank below the treetops and before I had to go out. More in hope than anticipation I ran off 240 frames and packed everything up leaving the processing until this evening.

Most of the frames were indeed fairly bad. I ended up using 88 in Registax and stacking 48 of those. I'm actually quite pleasantly surprised by the result.

Looks like there might be a bit more activity on the limb that could turn into something interesting over the next few days, otherwise it looks like we're going to be in for a quiet week.

240 frames of 1/1000th @ ISO100, 450D & 127 Mak. Preprocessed with PIPP, 48 of 88 stacked in Registax v6.

James

[Bizibilder]

'Twas difficult today - but you seem to have a good image there James. It gets a bit much when you have to take over 200 frames "just to be sure".

[ilove1995]

Very nice James. Haven't had a chance to process what I took today but not expecting much due to the cloud/haze.

[David Smith]

That's a very good image whatever the conditions.

[Montana]

Still a very crisp image, the disc is starting to get thin again!

Alexandra

[DrRobin]

Very nice James, total cloud cover here. I had a nice day sailing, moderate winds, makes a pleasant change.

Robin

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice image.