H Alpha January 22nd. Lovely filaproms.

[paulastro]

I had a nice break in the cloud from 1.21pm until about 2.20pm - though I had to go street-side as the Sun got lower toward the end.  Two really nice filaproms and good disk detail.  I had some excellent seeing for a few mintues and in the binoviewer the view was quite spectacular - much more so than the pics  may indicate!

I couldn't decide which pic to post from the two below - so I posted both.  I find the view on my monitor looks  a bit different from the view as it appears when posted on SGL, so it's difficult to know exactly how they are going to turn out.  It's a difficult balancing act only taking single frames to bring out detail in the proms and disk detail - as I'm sure you're aware. That's why most of you nice sensible folks out there use Atik cameras and the like.     Perhaps one day............

Anyway, both snaps are single frames taken with Lunt 60mm DS, Olympus E-M5, 1000 asa, the first at 1/15 sec at 2.08pm, the second 1/8 sec a minute earlier.

[xtreemchaos]

lovely discs Paul, i find uploading them as png files better, the compression dont suck asmuch life outa them as jpeg.thanks for sharing, charl.

[laudropb]

Very nice disk. Lots of activity to look at.

[paulastro]

Many thanks Charl.  I have no idea what a PNG file is, but I checked on my old version of Elements and I can indeed save them as such.  I'll try it next time I post an image and see what it comes out like.  Mind you, to see what the difference is I might have to post two versions, one PNG and one jpeg  .   Thanks again for the suggestion, it's appreciated. 

[Pete Presland]

I think your image has disappeared 

[Montana]

I can't see any images? or am I missing something in this new format?

 

Alexandra

[Pete Presland]

7 minutes ago, Montana said:

I can't see any images? or am I missing something in this new format?

 

Alexandra

I think a few images that  were posted prior to the upgrade have gone walkies 

[paulastro]

Sorry folks, I've no idea where the image has gone, I've certainly not taken it off for any reason.  Perhaps this is part of the system settling in?  If it doesn't come back soon I'll repost it if necessary.

[paulastro]

I've decided to repost the images again anyway, as it seems they probably won't reappear by themselves.

I'm not sure why the script comes out at the side of the images, sorry about this. I haven't quite got the hang of this new system yet.

 

 

[Montana]

Wow! the one on the right is exceptional

 

Alexandra

[jetstream]

Hey Paul, wanna sell me your Ha scope and etalon? Great images Paul.

[paulastro]

Many thanks Alexandra, that's very kind.  I think we are looking at two different configurations of the page though - on my screen the images appear one below the other, each image more than filling the height of the screen.  Are you seeing thumbnails one next to the other and then clicking on each to enlarge them?  I have to admit I'm still confused with the new setup, when I click on any of the images they get smaller!  Mmmm.

[paulastro]

Many thanks Gerry, I'll let you know if I fall on hard (er) times 

[Montana]

I see two image side by side, when you click on them they don't get bigger they just move to the middle

 

Alexandra

[paulastro]

Thanks Alexandra, I wonder why we see different views?  Ah well, I don't suppose it matters too much