15/01/13 White light.

[JB80]

Managed to get a few shots off today albeit through a bit of cloud which you can kind of see in the pic a bit but it was better than nothing.

I'm still having a dog of a time with stacking though, it simply will not cleanly stack the whole disc.

I tried merging two different shots of the cleaner stacked areas in ICE(which I've never used before) which came out promising aside from some small seam lines.

I think I'm going to have to stop being lazy and whack the motors on the scope.

The merged image in ICE, not rotated.

[Steve Ward]

 A better view than anyone UK based got today Jarrod ... 

Hope you get to the bottom of the stacking issues soon ...

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Nice shot. Glad to see somebody got a good look at the sun. Have you tried autostitch? I find that works better for my solar mosaics

[JB80]

Thanks guys.

I tried autosticth after you mentioned it and got an egg shaped Sun.

[JB80]

I think this one is a better effort and it's only a stack of 8.

Can still see the clouds but I'm happier.

Out of curiosity is there any other programs like "Tilting Sun" to add any different perspective on solar images?

[JB80]

Also just realised I keep putting 13 as the year in my thread titles.

I'm a dope.

Could somebody please fix that?

[DrRobin]

Muy Bueno Jarrod.

Apart from the cloud, they are looking good.  Autostich sometimes stretches my images in one direction, although not as much as egg shaped.  If it does, I do a re-size in one direction only, just measure both axis and apply a scaling factor to just one.  I wouldn't say it corrects it perfectly, but no one is going to notice.  My picture from Monday was slightly stretched in the vertical by about 10% so a 10% reduction in the vertical axis only, brought it back to a nice circle.

http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/205116-mondays-marvelous-sun-in-ha-from-gateshead-13114/

Robin

[Montana]

Second image looks much better in clarity

Alexandra

[JB80]

Thanks Robin and Alexandra.

I couldn't tell yours it had been misshapen even after you told me so it did a pretty good job. I couldn't quite get the flat bottom out of my autostich pic so figured I'd leave it for now.

Weather is looking good for today though here so hopefully I'll get a chance to get out.