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First light with solar scope and first sun image!


simmo39

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Hi all, this is my first post on the light side, As it was getting to hard to do DSO stuff this time of the year i forced myself to buy a Daystar solar scout to dip my toe into the solar water! Here is my first image, not great by the standards set on the site but im happy that i managed to get the scope to work for me. Any hints and tips would be welcome,

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I’m new to this too! 
Great image! 
what camera did you use? 
also, a question about the scope.

I have a certain amount of image shift when rotating the helical focuser. How does your scope perform? 
cheers and thanks for sharing 

Bryan

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6 minutes ago, assouptro said:

I’m new to this too! 
Great image! 
what camera did you use? 
also, a question about the scope.

I have a certain amount of image shift when rotating the helical focuser. How does your scope perform? 
cheers and thanks for sharing 

Bryan

Hi Bryan, Thank you.  I used an ASI 120 mm Its normally my guide scope camera. I think the pixal size is a little large for my set up so will iget a ASI 178mm when I can scrape some spare cash together.  I have a little image shift but found it hard to get good focus with the helical focuser, im looking into getting it motor driven as I think that will help. The scope its self im impressed with although i need to sort out the mounting of the camera as i could only get focus with the tip of the nose piece just in the clamp. I think i need some more time learnig how to proccess solar images, Its a lot different to DSO stuff.

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10 minutes ago, simmo39 said:

Hi Bryan, Thank you.  I used an ASI 120 mm Its normally my guide scope camera. I think the pixal size is a little large for my set up so will iget a ASI 178mm when I can scrape some spare cash together.  I have a little image shift but found it hard to get good focus with the helical focuser, im looking into getting it motor driven as I think that will help. The scope its self im impressed with although i need to sort out the mounting of the camera as i could only get focus with the tip of the nose piece just in the clamp. I think i need some more time learnig how to proccess solar images, Its a lot different to DSO stuff.

I agree some sort of electronic focuser would be really useful, I am pondering that too. And it is a totally different ball game to DSO imaging. 
I ended up using my Atik 314l+ and Fits files (that was slow!) then converting the best fits to an avi in Pipp before processing. 
I have a camera on its way, I’m not totally convinced it’s suitable but it was a good price on ukabs. It’s a brand I’ve never come across it’s a Point grey Blackfly usb3, it apparently has the same Sony chip as the zwo asi 174 so we’ll see!

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30 minutes ago, assouptro said:

I agree some sort of electronic focuser would be really useful, I am pondering that too. And it is a totally different ball game to DSO imaging. 
I ended up using my Atik 314l+ and Fits files (that was slow!) then converting the best fits to an avi in Pipp before processing. 
I have a camera on its way, I’m not totally convinced it’s suitable but it was a good price on ukabs. It’s a brand I’ve never come across it’s a Point grey Blackfly usb3, it apparently has the same Sony chip as the zwo asi 174 so we’ll see!

I will have to look into that camera, thanks for the pointer.

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30 minutes ago, assouptro said:


I have a camera on its way, I’m not totally convinced it’s suitable but it was a good price on ukabs. It’s a brand I’ve never come across it’s a Point grey Blackfly usb3, it apparently has the same Sony chip as the zwo asi 174 so we’ll see!

An excellent camera.

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1 hour ago, Nigella Bryant said:

Wel done, brilliant first image. You might like to try ImPPG software for solar post stacking software. I use it al the time after stacking in autostakker 3. This is using ImPPG and a Lunt 60mm DS single stacked image.

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That looks so good, I have got imppg and have just watched a tutorial about it. I will give it ago tomorrow and see what i get. thanks for the pointers,

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