Sun 27/08/17

[tich]

As I haven't done any astronomy for myself much in a while I could see the a lovely blue sky yesterday so I thought I'd set up in the garden for a spot of solar.
I popped the eyepieces on the scopes & had a look, there was some nice spot formation showing plus one near the limb & a few small proms so I thought right I'll set up the cameras. The neighbours 3 year old Granddaughter thought it were fascinating seeing me with a blanket on my head & wondered what I were up to, so I let her look through the ED100 & she loved it so I gave her some solar glasses to keep.



However all didn't go well as I couldn't get the DMK41 to work, even after updating Sharpcap & trying it on IC Capture I ended up using the ASI120MM which suffers badly with newtons rings with Ha imaging.
Apparently I need to update windows frame network to get the DMK to work again although after packing away I did test it using Firecapture which I'm not a great fan of & but the camera seemed fine.

I know none of these images will win any awards but it were nice to be out although it did take me a while to figure Autostakkert3.

[Stu]

Great looking setup Tich, nice to get out there!

[tich]

Thanks Stu it's very hazy out today though so I doubt I'll be setting up unfortunately, oh I had to edit the post as I put today's date on it lol doh!!

I thought I'd better add the image details too, the white light images were taken using the Bresser Messier 127L, Lunt wedge & ASI120MM. The Ha images were taken using the same camera & Lunt 35. Stacked in Autostakkert3 & a quick process in PS.
 

[Stu]

Same here unfortunately  

[Patbloke]

Never mind the sun, I could look at that set up all day :-) Nice work

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice set-up and good results!

[Pete Presland]

Some nice detail despite the rings. Have you tried Firecapture for your DMK41?

[tich]

22 minutes ago, Pete Presland said:

Some nice detail despite the rings. Have you tried Firecapture for your DMK41?

I downloaded it & tried Firecapture after I finished & it worked, as I'd updated Sharpcap & tried IC Capture to see if I could get anything, I'm not a huge fan of Firecapture though but at least I shall know for next time.

[Pete Presland]

I have used Firecapture for a few years now. The feature of bejng able to set many different profiles for each target I'd invaluable. I would expect your camera to work with particularly the IC capture programme if it works with Firecapture. 

[Davey-T]

Good to see you having a bash at solar Tich, I use Firecapture as well, I find the only annoying thing about it for daylight use is the tiny buttons.

Dave

[tich]

I've downloaded the newer version of Firecature to give a try, but whenever I'll get to try it is anyone's guess.