big prom today

[Stardust]

I managed a session this morning but there was thin cloud and not good seeing, I persevered and managed a Prom Quark shot through a TV85  followed by SM60DS with 2.5x powermate.

The camera was a QHY5II-Lm and 100/1000 frames. I feel they don't do justice to the visual view which is either my camera or lousy processing,

[David Smith]

Very nice. Very cloudy and slightly damp here so now Sun today

[Luke]

Sweet prom! It looked on Gong like it might be interesting, but no luck for me today, great to see what was going on!

[Pete Presland]

looking very nice!

[Floater]

We have removed word weather here ... So no chance of seeing any sun.

(Think it's Dave I should credit for the 'removed word' construction, but can't find the post that tickled me.)

[Davey-T]

Glad you've managed some imaging with the Quark prom David, looks impressive.

Processing is the bane of my life, what appears to work on one image fails miserably on another apparently identical image

Dave

[Montana]

Very nice images indeed :) proms can be tricky, they are never the same twice due their nature and take a bit of practice.

Alexandra

[Davey-T]

Had an unexpected bit of Sun so had a go at the prom to compare Quark Chromosphere to Quark prom', don't know if it's much help, different scope, location , conditions etc.

Quick process so probably more detail to be dragged out

Dave

100mm f/6 refractor, Quark chromospere, .5x f/r, PG Blackfly

[Stardust]

was that an exposure for the surface or that a composite , I had to really over expose the surface to bring out the prom but that's a very low contrast image which I found tricky to pull out.

Any hints or tips are always welcomed to help me move forward with processing

Interesting image scale with the black fly, mine aren't cropped and on a shorter f/l, don't confess to understand all this camera malarky.

[Davey-T]

Just the result of best of one 1500 frame video, played around in P'Shop, I did do an overexposed one for the prom but made a pigs ear of masking them together so didn't bother.

Dave

[Stardust]

that's a nice even illumination, my camera tends to wash out on one side, don't know why that is. Looks to be better contrast on the disc than I can get with this one, just wondering how well it would do on exposing just for the prom.

How do you find the Blackfly? Are you using gig-e or standard ethernet and how long does it take for the 1500 frames. So many questions

[DrRobin]

Wow some nice images, especially if seeing wasn't up to scratch. Sadly I have been away for work all week, it was supposed to be two days, but I got stuck so have missed all the action.

Robin