White light solar: AR3089 - 29 Aug 2022

[wheresthetorch?]

Some white light shots of AR3089, taken with my Pixel 4a held up the eyepiece of my 80mm f7.5 achro.  

No too bad, but detail and focus was better visually. 

 

 

[Stu]

Some nice shots the @wheresthetorch?. It’s a very complex AR isn’t it, looks great through the scope as you say 👍

[wheresthetorch?]

8 minutes ago, Stu said:

Some nice shots the @wheresthetorch?. It’s a very complex AR isn’t it, looks great through the scope as you say 👍

Thank you - moments of steady seeing gave a real sharpness to the image, with lots to see. 

[Rusted]

Keep at it! 

I had a play with your 1st image.

The first [below] is just image handling software [PhotoFiltre7] to crop around the sun and make minor adjustments. B&W instead of colour.
The second is after ImPPG and then more image handling software to crop. Both images are resized to 600x600 to suit the forum format.

[wheresthetorch?]

43 minutes ago, Rusted said:

Keep at it! 

I had a play with your 1st image.

The first [below] is just image handling software [PhotoFiltre7] to crop around the sun and make minor adjustments. B&W instead of colour.
The second is after ImPPG and then more image handling software to crop. Both images are resized to 600x600 to suit the forum format.

Wow - thank you very much!  I'll have to start having a go at that myself.  Much appreciated. 

Edited September 3, 2022 by wheresthetorch?
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[Rusted]

 All I did was reinforce exactly what you had captured yourself.

 By making the image black and white it removes false colour.
Solar imagers often use B&W cameras. So the pretty colours are often added afterwards.

 I recommend you download the popular and free ImPPG imaging software and have a play with that.
It is quite magical how it can reinforce the detail in an image.
There are free image handling softwares out there too.

 For many years my solar [planetary and lunar] "imaging" was done "handheld" with a compact digital camera.
I used a Baader Solar Foil filter taped over the end of a cut off detergent bottle for the sun.
The filter fitted snugly over the telescope's dewshield.

 My special "trick" was to find a suitable detergent bottle top. [Or any other tube in plastic]
The closed end of the bottle cap was sawn off and smoothed to accept the nose of my extended camera lens loosely.
The other end of the short tube I had made fitted snugly over the eyepiece.
I wrapped cloth tape around both ends to protect the equipment.

 All this tube did was to align the camera with the eyepiece.
The tube must NOT be a tight fit on the camera lens.
Or it might damage it while it is autofocusing as it moves in and out.
It helps to turn off auto switch-off or the lens keeps retracting at intervals.
You must not rely on the "adapter" tube to support the camera. It is just a guide.

 I captured sunspots, eclipses and transits with a small refractor.
Mounted on a video tripod. With pan and tilt head and my little digital camera.
I often had to climb local hills to be able to capture early morning events at dawn.

 Here is an old post showing some of my captures with my very old, secondhand Vixen.

https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/378483-vintage-vixen-sp102m-f10-achromat-purchase/?do=findComment&comment=4108024

Fullerscopes Telescope Mountings: Venus Transit 2012 images!

 

Edited September 3, 2022 by Rusted