My first Solar picture

[SteveBz]

Hello Guys,

At long last, after fighting with webcams, reducers and goodness knows what else to get one complete image, here is my first.

Any advice to clean it up and make it more professional looking gladly accepted.

I used a Baader-filtered, Celestron 114eq with an ordinary Kelner 20mm lens with a 50% reducer, yellow filter and variable polariser turned about halfway up to reduce the intensity. 

Then I used a cheap mobile phone holder to hold my Samsung phone close to the eyepiece and a 2 second delay to allow any vibrations to die down.

Four photos have been stacked with AutoStakkert (I cna't work out how to use Registax 6) and here is the result, reduced to about 700kB:

The left hand side is a bit blurred, maybe not positioned well enough, ditto blue stain at top left.

Any advice welcome,

Regards

Steve

[xtreemchaos]

great shot mate, very good for a firstlight. your a tiny bit off focus, but not far off. well done. charl.

[laudropb]

Good first attempt. As Charl says its a bit out of focus, but you will get there. Well done.

[SteveBz]

I just recollimated.  It looked a bit horrible. If it's sunny, I'll try again tomorrow.

[cshahar]

Great first full disk Steve. You caught the active region nicely!

-Charles

[Davey-T]

Good first go Steve, amazing what can captured with a phone nowadays.

Dave

[David Smith]

Good start

[Pete Presland]

Congratulations on your first solar image, a fine way to start.