14-07-2016 Quark Chromosphere

[Ewan]

This is a 4 pane mosaic using the following equipment :-
AZEQ6 Mount, 152mm TecnoSky Refractor, Daystar Quark Chromosphere, DMK21AU618 Mono.
Best 20% from each capture of 2000 frames.
Seeing was probably the best i have seen for a while, captured more data with the IMX174 chip after the DMK but have yet to process that. Hope this ok & all the best.

 

[xtreemchaos]

outstanding Shots Ewan, cracking colour and detail mate, did you get your day in the sun today ?, its like venus here in south wales, ive been sulking all day , hope you have clear skys,  charl.

[Ibbo!]

Very good

[Ewan]

8 minutes ago, xtreemchaos said:

outstanding Shots Ewan, cracking colour and detail mate, did you get your day in the sun today ?, its like venus here in south wales, ive been sulking all day , hope you have clear skys,  charl.

Charl, it started out sunny enough but I only capture the afternoon sun as the house is in the way ;-), no show today but still got data to process anyway.

Tomorrow been promised sun again, I hope it's cloudy all day & I cant image (that should help it be sunny now shhhhhh), glad you liked them.

 

Thanks Steve.

[xtreemchaos]

 Hope its clear for us all tomorrow Ewan, i dare not look at the forcast mate, but your reverse syc might work, hope so anyway i got me fingers crossed,  charl.

[David Smith]

Super shots Ewan. Thanks for sharing.

[Pete Presland]

Very nice image plenty of detail showing there. Been pretty grim here all day.

[laudropb]

Very nice images Ewan. Rained here all day.

[Iainp]

Stuuuuning! The colour one in particular is breathtaking

Iain 

[Davey-T]

Just the usual perfection Ewan, wouldn't expect anything less, have you settled on that colour scheme now ?

Dave

[paulastro]

Superb quality Ewan, quite stunning.

[Ewan]

I did try out the PG IMX174 cam with a 2x Barlow & got some half decent results, a tweak on the capture settings & better seeing may give some hi res Ha images in the future, here's hoping.

Thanks for all the comments / feedback as always much appreciated.

[Ewan]

52 minutes ago, Davey-T said:

Just the usual perfection Ewan, wouldn't expect anything less, have you settled on that colour scheme now ?

Dave

Yeah kind of Dave, to be honest I just process it on the day & stick with what looks ok.

Dave the one thing with Solar Imaging I have found is that previous settings never seem to work to the best they can with new data.

Every time I use IMPPG I save the Tone correction setting & then try using it on other data, not once have I done that & thought 'yeah looks good', I now just reset the Sigmas & start from ziltch, just seems to work better.

This weeks looking good Dave but don't blame me if it goes twits :-)

[Davey-T]

I don't have a lot of confidence in weather forecasters ability to forecast more than a few hours ahead if that, especially when the lady on Radio Kent is telling me it's dry with sunny periods while the rain is hammering on the windows 

Dave

[Ewan]

The active region shot was using the 1920 x 1200 Point Grey IMX174 sensor PLUS a cheap 2 x Barlow i had for ages, it shows promise for some future hi res Ha imaging maybe. Thanks for looking.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Absolutely fabulous detail shots

[Ewan]

Cheers Michael. Should good for most of us this coming week one way or another.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

2 minutes ago, Ewan said:

Cheers Michael. Should good for most of us this coming week one way or another.

Not looking good here, alas. Hope you get some more sunshine

[cshahar]

Lovely detail. I always appreciate closeups when they are done well. It isn't easy to achieve such high resolution images.

-Charles

[xtreemchaos]

some more cracking images Ewan, you have caught the new spot lovely. still like venus here "sat", hope you have clear skys. charl.

[johnfosteruk]

Outstanding images Ewan, love 'em.