A sunny Bank Holiday

[Montana]

At last! some sunshine and on a Bank holiday too, miracles do happen

I filled the hard drive, so I'm still processing but here are a few.

I finally got the double stack working, hooray and a new camera

Solarscope DSF-100 / 1.6x Barlow / PGR Grasshopper 3

260813_112424 f colour by Alexandra's Astronomy, on Flickr

The rest are with the DMK41

2013-08-26 09-33-24 Single S Block filter by Alexandra's Astronomy, on Flickr

2013-08-26 09-27-47 DS SStack Block by Alexandra's Astronomy, on Flickr

2013-08-26 09-33-24 Single S Block filter by Alexandra's Astronomy, on Flickr

2013-08-26 09-32-01 DS SS Block filter by Alexandra's Astronomy, on Flickr

I should have stitched them together I suppose! there seems to be lots of posts today (good weather?) I'll have to read them all tomorrow

Alexandra

[allcart]

great stuff Alex. You seem to get more depth in your pics. A real pleasure to look at.

[Steve Ward]

Oh I do wish you were living somewhere a little sunnier , that DS set-up should be out every day ...

[allcart]

What is the ds blocker and ss blocker Alex. Why would you double stack the blocker.?

[DrRobin]

Very nice Alexandra. Nice to see the Solarscope 100 back in action. It picks out more fine detail than my Lunt, although I suppose it is not as portable?

Robin

[Psychobilly]

Quality Kit and processing produces fantastic images

I still can't decide on a new 1/2" camera to use with the LOHA...

I did pick up a QHY5II-Mono as a lightweight guidecam and tried that yesterday but based on yesterdays experience I don't think it will cut it as a solar cam...

Peter...

[Sarah]

Excellent images Alexandra! What are your first impressions of the new camera (now you have it working)?

Sarah

[Montana]

Thanks everyone I hope I answer all your questions but if I miss someone just shout.

Steve, I wish it were sunny every weekend, I need to call God

Alan, the Solarscope comes with 2 blocking filters, one for use with the single stack and one for use with the double stack. The double stack blocking filter lets more light through than a standard blocking filter to make up for the light level drop using the two etalons. So there is no noticeable drop in light between the SS and DS units. However, I'm not going to use that blocker again as it is useless

Robin, it isn't as portable as the PST no

Sarah, first impressions of the Grasshopper is

- it is a **** to get to run on a PC

- once working it is amazing, twice as fast as DMK41, much more sensitive in Halpha, so little noise you don't have to catch or stack many frames, much bigger image.

- If I can get the 16bit to work it will be a cracker, just got to load the Intel fix to sort that problem out.

Alexandra

[paulastro]

Stunning photographs, I especially like the first one. It has great depth to it, almost 3-D like. Wonderful, thank you for sharing them.