Solar Details: Mon 26th July 2021

[TakMan]

First day of annual leave.... itching to get out after seeing Rusted's super images of the new double filament feature... or 'Big Ted on the Sun' ! 🧸

Clear Outside said 'no chance', but Xasteria (7Timer/Windy.com) offered a glimmer of hope around 10am BST.

So with the rest of the week suggesting little chance of any solar, I took a punt and dragged the gear out.

Ended up getting 30 minutes to grab some data. Conditions not perfect, hazy high cloud and underwhelming seeing - not great for my sort of high resolution Quark set-up.... and towards the end of my imaging window, thicker cloud was rolling in and the seeing dropped away.

Having said that, got something half decent and some more data to run through over the next few days when the weather turns...

Basler '174' > Quark > TEC140 > Baader D-ERF.  AS!2 > ImPPG > Ps. Captured in Basler's Pylon on Mac.

All images, best 100 frames from 3000. Mono 12P, 110fps, Flat frame (bag) calibrated. 0.29"/Pixel. Guided by an Hinode Solar Guider.

I usually keep my images lighter, but looking at other folks images on here and especially on the Solar Chat Forum, many go much darker. So for this set, I've tried dropping the mid-tones a tad. I still haven't really found my own 'look' to my solar images as yet and don't want to run them that dark, but it keeps the ole brain cells going trying different things!

As usual (for reference), the closest (by UT/GMT time) GONG image.

Damian

And from Spaceweather - for sunspot identification:

 

Filament (now not so 'double' or 'Teddy Bear Ears') and area around AR2847, 10.37 BST, 6500ms

 

AR2847, 10.47 BST, 6500ms Perhaps it's just me, spent too much time looking at it, but this looks like a running wading bird.... 🐦  God - help !!!

 

AR2846 (looks like an Angel fish 🐠 - especially on Rusted's image from today!) , 10.39 BST, 6500ms

 

Lastly, a 2 pane panoramic (most of the time, Photoshop won't stitch the ruddy things - so I don't get round to ever posting them, but it went ahead and did so this time!)
AR2847, 10.50 BST, 6500ms

 

That's it for now, might add some tomorrow, but I get the feeling from looking at the data that these are the best of the bunch.
With rain forecast, I might spend the day building some of my (space related) 50th Birthday pressies that I've been keeping since early April for such a wet day...

 

[Rusted]

A nice set of images.

Image tone [or brightness] is entirely a matter of personal taste. Some posters on SC do go for a very dark image.
It was interesting to see how different members played with Alexandra's SS 0.3 image file.
Posting on forums certainly changed my own processing ideas. I went from rather pale and insignificant to a much more robust contrast.
I was noticing considerable differences in my images when posted here and on SC. SGL is far more flattering now, than earlier.
Without access to the sophisticated PS "toys" I use PhotoFiltre7 to finish mine off after ImPPG.