Sun 27-03-16, Proms and Sunspot

[Bobby1970]

My first proper attempt at capturing an image of the sun (or part of it) with my Lunt LS35 and Altair GPCam colour.

Took a video of a couple of minutes, Autostakkert, Registax, Lightroom.

I noticed when i was taking the video i had some dust spots in the frame so had to remove these with a tool in the photo app on my macbook.

I only cleaned the camera and barlow recently so wondered what is the best way to clean the optics of the  scope too?

Anyway, thanks for looking, any constructive comments would be most welcome. 

 

 

Edited March 27, 2016 by Bobby1970

[Davey-T]

Very good start, best not to get too hung up on clean optics, dust spots can be removed with flats.

Dave

Edited March 27, 2016 by Davey-T

[Dave Smith]

Very nice. I was also going to suggest flats.

 

Dave

[xtreemchaos]

great shots mate, lots of nice detail.thanks  charl.

[DrRobin]

Nicely caught Bobby and welcome to the 'light side'.  My ccds have a glass window so unless they have been apart all they need are a quick go with the blower now and again.  Flats or just let the image drift around a bit are the other way of dealing with dust.

Robin

[laudropb]

Very nice first solar images

[Bobby1970]

I did also take a video clip where i had increased the gain of the camera significantly, this obviously lost all of the surface detail but seems to have shown the proms better?

Cropped a bit too. 

 

Thanks again for looking.

 

[Davey-T]

With a bit of practice you can combine the two

Dave

One I did yesterday combining prom and surface

 

 

[David Smith]

Great start Bobby.

[Pete Presland]

A great way to start your Solar imaging.