Sun in Ha 8 September 2023

[step_hen]

I had a friend make up an adapter so that we could attach the 'quark' unit removed from a Daystar Solarscout (60mm) to my larger Starfield 102ED refractor. Here is the first image, a composite of two different exposures. 100 frames stacked out of 1000 taken in Sharpcap, processed in AS3, Registax and Photoshop. Lots of high hazy cloud and rough seeing so pleased to get a good first test image 

Stephen 

 

[Altocumulus]

Interesting days ahead !

Is it me, or is the image a tad under-exposed?

[step_hen]

Yes it does look a little darker on my phone than it did on my monitor actually. 

[Rusted]

There's a beautifully captured prom hiding on the limb.

I have boosted the gamma and contrast a tad to bring it out.
Any more and the sky becomes too bright.