First Solar outing - Starfield 102ED

[CraigT82]

Haven't had a scope outside in months, mainly because I'm usually in bed before it's dark, so decided to do something about it and bought a Lunt Herschel wedge, Baader Solar Continuum filter and also ordered an Antlia 3nm calcium line filter from FLO.  Managed to put all to use this morning on the Starfield 102ED and this is the first pic I've processed. I also played around with a barlow and the calcium filter so will put up more as I get them finished.

Haven't really done any solar imaging before so not sure how its done properly. This was stacked best 10% of 5000 captured frames in AS3 (native focal length), then some levels and wavelets in Astrosurface, then colour in Gimp. 

Thanks for looking.

Edit: added the calcium image, bit softer than the 540nm but a little more contrast on the Faculae. Burnt it out in the middle... oops!

Edited June 15, 2023 by CraigT82

[Chris-h]

Nice and sharp!

Funny enough, I just got the same scope delivered an hour ago! 😄

[CraigT82]

Used a Baader 2.25x Q barlow to get closer into sunspot group Ar13333.  Dont think the seeing supported this FL to be honest, but good to play.

Edited June 15, 2023 by CraigT82

[CraigT82]

2 minutes ago, Chris-h said:

Nice and sharp!

Funny enough, I just got the same scope delivered an hour ago! 😄

Excellent, you will love it I'm sure

[Chris-h]

I already had the FPL51 version of this (Altair Ascent). Love it! But the little CA that was there, annoyed me when I was imaging