My sun Bizbuilder style

[Scott]

Finally got around to having a go at our star which I processed bizbuilder style in ps.

Big thanks for that but still got a looong way to go

sun coloured by Scott Prideaux 1961, on Flickr

[foundaplanet]

That's a grand result, nice one..

[David Smith]

A great starting point. Well done.

[allcart]

Good Job Scott. You really have to look at the big version on Flickr to appreciate it. Clean up the dustbunnies on your sensor and you could get 10/10.

[Bizibilder]

That's a really good image and so well processed! :p :p .

It is nice to see folk starting solar imaging (and using the tuorial ) - but it is only a starting point. Once you are familiar with the basic steps you can start to have a "play" and hopefully improve on it.

To get rid of the dust bunnies take a few (10-20) flats. Simply turn the scope away from the Sun, remove the Solar filter and set the camera to Av mode (I'm assuming a DSLR). Point the scope at an "even" bit of sky - clear or cloudy will do and click away. Load the flats only into Registax first and click Flat/Dark/Reference and then Create flatfield. Save the image. Open your lights and then immediately click Flat/Dark/Reference and Load Flatfield. Then set your align point etc. Those dust bunnies will vanish from the final image as if by magic!!

[Steve Ward]

You've done a great job there sir ..... .... very nicely processed indeed .

( I think Roger may have a copyright issue with the "bunnies" .... )

[Bizibilder]

I've got yet another one on the sensor again but havn't bothered with flats for a while - too much trouble just getting the Sun recently. (Have to use the Brillo pad on the sensor again!! )

[Scott]

Cheers everyone for the kind words . I realise theres a lot to learn but it's all good fun.

Thanks Roger, I didn't even realise I could use flats in registacks. (learn something new every day hey). I've only ever used them in deep sky stacker.

Something for next time hey.

[Scott]

I've got yet another one on the sensor again but havn't bothered with flats for a while - too much trouble just getting the Sun recently. (Have to use the Brillo pad on the sensor again!! )

Oh, I was wondering how to clean the sensor, brillo pads it is then

[JamesF]

A very good effort. Well done.

I also have a couple of unco-operative dust bunnies. I think I shall have to clean the sensor properly soon.

James

[allcart]

Ask Gina, she knows all about cleaning sensors. :grin:

[DrRobin]

Nice clear image for a first try Scott. Roger's tutorial really is good. As Roger says it is just practise.

Robin

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice one

[Montana]

Well done! that's a cracking shot

alexandra

[Scott]

thanks heaps everyone for the kind words, this solar stuff is very new to me

[JamesF]

It's so long since I saw the Sun last that it'll all be very new to me next time I try it

James

[Scott]

It's so long since I saw the Sun last that it'll all be very new to me next time I try it

James

I thought you southerners got all the sun........Somerset is south isn't it?

[JamesF]

I thought you southerners got all the sun........Somerset is south isn't it?

In the south certainly, but perhaps more of a problem, it's in the south-wet.

James

[Scott]

In the south certainly, but perhaps more of a problem, it's in the south-wet.

James

I wish I could convince my wife to move to the south-wet.............I've given up trying to get her to move back to the south-east (of Oz)