HA Combined Disk + Proms 2.2.18

[Macavity]

The weather was kind to me for the new Chameleon test...
Giving thanks for apparent absence of Newton's Rings too! 
 

 

[Davey-T]

Excellent result Chris, you must be well pleased with that.

Dave

[Macavity]

Yes, Dave -- And relieved too. Purchase of the "comfy chair"
for the lounge still recedes... but I don't quite so bad now.  

[Lowjiber]

That's a beauty, Chris!   Those proms are perfect.

Thanks much for the nice share.

Clear Skies

[laudropb]

That is a lovely image Chris.

[David Smith]

Great disk Chris.

[Craney]

Nice work.

Is that one shot or a composite of a surface shot and a prom shot ??

 

[Pete Presland]

A couple of cracking proms visible there!

[Macavity]

18 hours ago, Craney said:

Is that one shot or a composite of a surface shot and a prom shot ??

Hi Craney (and Thanks Everyone)!

Yes indeed! It is a composite of separate disk and prominence images. 
But you also remind me of something (This is always FATAL! lol) But...

I use AS!2 for stacking. As so often, this "Proms" image didn't "lock on" in
the "analysis" stage... But it stacked anyway? I *usually* take two AVIs
The first for the disk (obviously!) and the second for the Proms -- Where
I whack up the Firecapture exposure/gain to some fairly random level! 

I note that (to some level!) it is possible to extract prominence images
from the disk image, by judicious software twiddling! I speculate that
a better strategy is to increase the gain more *modestly* for "proms"? 
Maybe leave a bit of "disk" for the stacking program to "lock on to"...   

ASIDE: Within this is my excuse for (apparent) madness of buying the
"Chameleon Cam". Simply, my DMK41 has a few "pixel defects" and
the extra GAIN and FPS gives me more options?!? Also, this camera
has not gather too much dust... or worse still, been "cleaned" by me! 

P.S. I had enough of "drifting"... taking FLAT images for full disks etc.
My memory ain't what it used to be, and I'm get "snowed under" by
all these AVI files and scraps of paper with my quasi-illegible writing! 

[Craney]

Your picture looks very 'natural' in terms of the colour balance across the whole frame, that I initially thought you had perfected a way of getting surface detail and proms in one go..... that would be a game changer.

I quite like an artistic contrast in the display colours..... although, aestetically and emotively the proms just have to be a simmering volcanic red. 

[Macavity]

1 hour ago, Craney said:

I quite like an artistic contrast in the display colours..... although, aestetically and
emotively the proms just have to be a simmering volcanic red. 

I TOTALLY agree with you on that... And perhaps *realistically* too?
"Simmering volcanic Red" - I like it!  Maybe I'll return to that idea.
Wishing it was on the "palette" of my various graphics programs!

[johnfosteruk]

Cracking image Chris. Glad the chameleon is working for you.