5.3.2020 Massive prom on West limb!

[Rusted]

Get your H-a gear set up if you can. Huge prom 2 o'clock.

Struggling with cloud here.

 

 

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[Rusted]

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[Ibbo!]

Could I ask what is this sun you speak of?

 

Nice images.

[Rusted]

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8 minutes ago, Ibbo! said:

Could I ask what is this sun you speak of?

 

Nice images.

Thanks.

I have absolute proof of its existence. It looks just like this:

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[Davey-T]

Lovely prom, been hissing down all day here.

Dave 

[Pete Presland]

Superb looking prom, not much chance of seeing it around these parts 🙂 

[AdeKing]

Cracking images of something I had no chance of seeing here today.

[Alan White]

There was a visible sun today?
Sadly solid cloud and wall to wall rain here.
Thanks for sharing Rusted.

[Rusted]

Thanks for all your support!  

Cloudy here all morning. Cleared up a bit after lunch but with dreadful thermal wobbling.
I'm amazed I had anything to show for it. I reduced exposure to 1ms or less by increasing the gain.
Then captured 3k frame videos in about 12 seconds to give AS!2 something to work with.
The last image [above] had the most detail but was rather overcooked in iMPPG.
I'm still far too slapdash with my processing.

The ZWO ASI174 is doing most of the work into SSDs. The technology has advanced on all fronts.
It's sheer speed is a huge upgrade over the ASI120MC for bigger apertures like 150mm/ 6" f/10.
Never any shortage of light. I'm usually on minimum gain in SharpCap with 2-5ms for surface features.
400fps in 640x480. 300fps at 800 x 600. My old Neximage5 counted its solar captures in minutes, not a few seconds!
That's when it wasn't misbehaving. Or the silly cable falling out!