White Light Sun - 13th May 2016

[Stu]

The seeing was pretty ropey for this, but I gave it a go anyway. Rather than my normal iPhone, I put the DSLR on the Tak, with a Barlow to give just enough image scale for a full disk to pretty much fill the sensor.

I took quite a few different images at varying exposures. Focus was tricky because of the variable seeing. I think I ended up with around 20 images, manually choosing around 10. I pre processed them in PIPP, then into AutoStakkert2 and finally my usual guesswork in IMPPG. A little tweak in PS Express and I think it has come out ok.

Comments and criticism welcomed. Any guidance as to normal setting in IMPPG would be useful, I'm flying in the dark mostly.

[Paul73]

Very nice Stu. Are you heading over to the dark side??

Plenty going on there. I'll have to dig the scope out if Clear Outside's 0% cloud all day ever materialises.

Paul

[Stu]

2 minutes ago, Paul73 said:

Very nice Stu. Are you heading over to the dark side??

Plenty going on there. I'll have to dig the scope out if Clear Outside's 0% cloud all day ever materialises.

Paul

Thanks very much Paul. I don't think so, I still struggle with the concept of laptops at the scope. I think I'll stick with simple stuff like this with a DSLR as that is very easy to pop in the diagonal and snap away. I've had a couple of goes with a GPCam which Dave kindly leant me, will try it again soon as it is very easy to use too.

[Pete Presland]

Nice white light disc.

[Knighty2112]

Great image Stu. Well done. All lot happening in the pic; some nice AR's, with some nice areas of faculae too coming around. Cheers!  

[xtreemchaos]

great shot mate, thats why i like to use a dslr,fast to setup and use. lovely detail stu. i feel theres going to be something big coming round the limb with all the faculae .clear skys charl.

[David Smith]

Good shot St.  I gave up yesterday, combination of poor seeing and too few too short gaps.

[Davey-T]

Nice spotty WL Stu, had a go yesterday but a bit too windy, never tried ImPPG on WL so can't help much, for HA I just sharpen to within an inch of it's life, very technical 

Not looking to hopeful today, 100% cloud ATM despite forecast clear sky.

Dave

[laudropb]

Very nice disk image Stu.

[Drop Of Sun]

Nice one, Stu! The setup time with lappy isn't too bad! Looks nice and sharp.

[Stu]

Thanks chaps.

Further attempts with DSLR today, struggled with the seeing so they are a bit rubbish, but caught the new AR on its first day so quite happy.

 

[Davey-T]

Good catch Stu, clear sky didn't reach this far east today so glad the seeing was pants

Dave