11.03.2020 AR

[Rusted]

Westerly gales and racing heavy cloud.

Managed to capture some lighter splodges in the disturbed region.

6" f/10 h-a PST mod ASI174:

 

[Rusted]

Additional images as seeing improves and racing cloud thins.
3k frames in SharpCap at 0.8ms exp, 320fps in 9 seconds, zero gain, 800 x 600, 1144, 1153 & 12.00 CET.
Baader 160mm D-ERF, iStar 150/10 H-alpha, Beloptik KG3, Baader 35nm H-a, PST mods, Maier ITF , ZWO ASI174MM.
Processed in AS!2, iMPPG and. Cropped, coloured and resized larger in PhotoFiltre7.

 

[Rusted]

Additional images as seeing improves-. Large flare has appeared on northern edge of disturbed area.

[Peter Drew]

Excellent results, new setup and owner working well.       😀

[Rusted]

1 minute ago, Peter Drew said:

Excellent results, new setup and owner working well.       😀

Thanks Peter.

Westerly gales don't usually help the seeing.
Now turning the dome more into the wind. So it gets in and blows the scope about.
Still, pleased with this morning's steadily improving results. Almost continuous sunshine now.
I'm going from capture to posting processed stills in only a few short minutes.

[Rusted]

Two further images after lunch.
At 14.53 the flare was still clearly visible.
By 1503 [CET] it had curled itself up to the south east.

The seeing is definitely worse than it was before lunch.
Though, thankfully, the wind has dropped.

 

Edited March 11, 2020 by Rusted

[Rusted]

Some reprocessed images of the short term flare at 12:46[CET]: Mostly playing with iMPPG & PhotoFiltre7.

No idea why added a 1 to the AR number. But what do you expect from somebody who once wore flares? 

 

[Pete Presland]

very nicely captured.